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Colleen McCulloughs famous Masters of Rome Series
I have already puchased these as paperbacks and have searched mobi, ms and many other ebook sites and only "October Horse" (the last book of the series) is available.
Awesome series that ebook readers cannot read - for these I recommend buying the paperbacks. |
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Actually the latest in the series is Antony and Cleopatra, which came out this fall. I don't know if there is an e-book version.
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Actually the last book of the series is Antony (!) and Cleopatra recently published which is available as an e-book too legally. The rest, well the series is popular so who knows, I would bet a lot they are available somewhere.
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![]() The last book is a fitting conclusion to the series, if it is a conclusion since at the end of October Horse Mrs. McCullough emphatically stated she is NOT going to write this book about Antony (love the spelling !) and Caesar Octavian and Cleopatra, but for some reason she changed her mind and it's possible she can go into the Augustan age - that becomes I, Claudius territory and I would love to see how Ms. McCullough treats it The book itself is similar to October Horse and Caesar, and it picks up just where October Horse ends. I still rate the first 3 books of the series as the best, with First Man in Rome a masterpiece, but the later books are pretty good too and the series consists of some of the best historical fiction out there. |
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Considering that the man's name was "Marcus Antonius", "Antony" would seem to be a more sensible "Anglicisation" than "Anthony"
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Ms. McCullough explains somewhere in her lengthy prefaces/addenda to the books in the series her reasons for doing this or that regarding spelling, naming conventions and even the timing of some events (she tries to be accurate regarding known historical facts and when she is not, she argues quite persuasively actually that the evidence is misleading).
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The series covers this period to finish the reign of Augustus - so the book IMHO is not for historians (as the period is covered already) but for lovers of romance novels only (note Colleen wrote the "Thorn Birds") The series is not available anywhere (other than October Horse the last in the series), I have checked all the major sources eg Amazon, MS, Mobi and others. |
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In the historical fiction genre I am also reading and liking Patrick O'Brian and I plan to start reading Dorothy Dunnet. Last edited by tompe; 01-05-2008 at 09:38 AM. |
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Both this book and October Horse are available legally as e-books, the others are not, but since the series is popular I would bet a lot they are available on the darknet And regarding the series timeline, well The First Man in Rome - rise of Marius and Sulla, war with Jugurtha and with the germans (~115-99 BC) Grass Crown - the Italian war and then the split and conflict between Marius and Sulla (~99-86 BC) Fortune's Favorites - the first civil war, the rise of Pompeius, Crassus and the young Caesar, war with Spartacus in Italy and Sertorius in Spain (~83 BC - 70 BC) Caesar's Women - final pirate and Asian wars, Caesar's ascension in politics and his alliance with Pompeius and Crassus (~70 BC - 58 BC) Caesar - The war in Gaul and the split with Pompeius leading to civil war and Pharsalus (~54BC - 48BC) October Horse - Egypt and the rest of the civil war (Africa, Spain), the triumph and assasination of Caesar, the war between his followers led by Antony and Octavian, and the republicans led by Cassius and Brutus ending at Phillippi (48BC -42BC) Antony and Cleopatra - the split between Caesar Octavian and Antony and their final showdown (42BC - 27BC) So quite a unitary series. Last edited by Liviu_5; 01-05-2008 at 12:36 PM. |
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Dorothy Dunnet is (was) one of the best historical fiction authors I have ever read! Her Niccolo series was excellent! I just wish they and her ealier series (I can't remember the name of it now) would be published in ebook format.
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I actually had checked it out at a bookstore and found it full of their love story - must have been just the pages I had looked at and I drew a totally wrong conclusion as a result. Because of you I now have another book to read, thanks and apologies for the misinformation. |
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