Taylor Caldwell Books

Her father led her to glittering success - but no-one taught her how to love. In A Prologue To Love, Taylor Caldwell has written the profoundly moving novel of Caroline Ames, a woman rich beyond imagining, whose inability to give or accept love, fear of poverty, and hostility brings in their wake tragedy and unhappiness for almost all the lives she touches. Caldwell writes of three generations of the Ames family in and around Boston during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with great insight and compassion. Perhaps Miss Caldwell's most impressive achievement is her ability to evoke the reader's sympathy and understanding for Caroline Ames. It is an inspiring story of the power of love and faith in overcoming evil.

New York Times Bestseller: A breathtaking saga of ancient Greece and one of history’s most influential political couples, Aspasia and Pericles. Born in the Greek city of Miletus, Aspasia was destined for a life of tragedy. Her wealthy father vowed to abandon any female child, so Aspasia was secreted away, educated independently of her family, and raised as a courtesan. She discovered at an early age how to use her powers of intellect as ingeniously as those of the flesh.   Ensconced in the Persian harems of Al Taliph, she meets the man who will change her fate: Pericles, the formidable political leader, statesman, ruler of Athens, and Aspasia’s most cherished lover. She becomes his trusted confidante, his equal through scandal, war, and revolt.   From the eruption of the Peloponnesian War to violent political and family rivalries to a devastating plague, author Taylor Caldwell plunges the reader into the heart of ancient Athens. In bringing to life the tumultuous love affairs and gripping power struggles of one of history’s most complicated and fascinating women, Glory and the Lightning is thrilling proof that “Caldwell never falters when it comes to storytelling” (Publishers Weekly).   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Taylor Caldwell including rare images from the author’s estate.    

Even when William made it clear he had married her only for offspring... Even when, brutally overriding her refined sensibility, he imprisoned her in a mansion of overwhelming opulence, an accursed house that brought all who lived there grief... Even when, before her eyes, she saw him destroying their children with his misguided indulgence... For here was a man more powerful, more truly gigantic than any she had ever known, a man she knew she would love until death...

Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power.

An embattled young doctor; an angry and divided town; a turn-of-the-century national scandal.

Beautiful Amalie Maxwell, low-born, but driven by limitless desires, came to Riversend and instantly touched off a holocaust of passion, hatred and intrigue that blazed through three generations of the lordly Lindseys...

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Ellen was born into servanthood and this was the only life she ever knew.. until Jeremy..; this successful New York lawyer saw in Ellen a ravishingly beautiful woman: the woman he was going to marry; Ellen was catapulted into this unknown world of politics, wealth and power, where her loving innocence was threatened by hypocrisy and ruthless ambition: Jeremy was the only one who could save her.

It was a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century. A world of corruption and greed, where secrets were public knowledge and love was for innocents. This is the world of Jason Garrity. A man of passion and principle. A man who had pulled himself up from the slums and now had everything he thought he wanted. What he wanted most was beautiful Patricia Mulligan, daughter of the town's wealthiest man. Jason fantasied about her, longed for her from afar--never dreaming that this great beauty would soon be his. For Patricia had fallen in love with Jason's best friend. And even now was bearing his child. But he loved another...

Poverty had drained him of all mercy, the great blast furnaces of the steel mills had burned all love and honor from his heart. Nothing was left but a hunger of wealth, a dream of power, and the terrible knowledge that only the ruthless could rise from the muck to live in the mansions of the mighty. Obsessed by this savage vision, he clawed his way from the slag pits to the peak of a mighty empire of steel. Men who opposed him were trampled, women who loved him were stripped of all decency and pride, left naked to his scornful lust. Except for one, whose strange, fierce love remained unconquerable, whose passion mocked him in every blazing triumph. Their wild, heart-rending combat runs like blood through the veins of this sweeping, magnificent story of America's growth, a story that only Taylor Caldwell could have written.

Judas, the myth, history's arch betrayer who sold his Lord for thirty pieces of silver and stands for all time as a figure to be rejected and reviled; Judas, the man, son of wealth and power, a young rebel, a disciple who fought to suppress the lusts of his flesh and hot-blooded pride to follow Jesus, and who became the victim of a monstrously diabilical lie when he committed the act that damned him in the eyes of the world; now the man and not the myth comes alive in the most startling and spellbinding retelling of the greatest story ever told: the ultimate triumph of the novelist who has thrilled countless millions with her magic.

Dieses epochale Werk aus der Feder der großen amerikanischen Autorin Taylor Caldwell ist in Thema und Gestalt ein direktes Pendant zu dem Weltbestseller „Lukas - der Medicus Gottes“. Wieder steht eine einzigartige Persönlichkeit aus biblischer zeit im Mittelpunkt des Geschehens, und vor den Augen des Lesers entsteht das spannende und faszinierende Bild eines neuen Zeitalters.

Wolf unter Schafen - bk469; Heyne Verlag; Taylor Caldwell; pocket_book; 1982

Nach einem Selbstmordversuch wird Guy Jerald in ein Sanatorium für Geistesgestörte gebracht, denn "... er wurde von Tag zu Tag seltsamer, er brütete vor sich hin - er verfiel in Schweigen. Tagelang. Es war, als sei er taub. Er scheint irgendeine Entscheidung zu suchen..." Er hat alles verlassen, seine Frau, seine Familie, seine Geliebte. Einem Freund gelingt es schließlich, ihn aus seiner Verzweiflung herauszuführen und einen neuen Anfang zu machen...

Plötzlich ist es geschehen, fast über Nacht: Wo gestern noch Gärten und Felder der Ernte entgegenreiften, kriecht heute drohend und dürr giftiges Unkraut heran. Erst verderben die Früchte der Felder, nun stöhnt das Vieh in den Ställen und stirbt. Etwas Fremdes und Gefährliches bedroht die Menschen. Schlägt die Natur zurück? Hat Gott selbst die Menschen mit seinem Zorn geschlagen, weil ihr Leben ohne Liebe ist? In Ihrer Verzweiflung nehmen Pete und seine große Familie den ungleichen Kampf auf. Noch nimmt die Mehrzahl der Menschen hungernd und leidend ihr Schicksal hin, aber bald schon stehen sie auf in schmerzlichem Zorn. Sie wollen kämpfen um die Zukunft, die wieder der Liebe gehört.

In einer Südstaatenkleinstadt wachsen vier junge Menschen heran. Livy, die Tochter von Reverend Bingham, Beatrice Fair, deren Vater früh stirbt und seine Frau Sarah mittellos zurücklässt, Jim Marcy, der Sohn des Arztes und Darn Hendricks, das schwarze Schaf der Stadt. Darn wird als Sohn eines Trinkers nicht akzeptiert. Nur Jim bemüht sich, sein Freund zu sein - doch Darn weist ihn zurück. Immer wieder kreuzen sich die schicksalhaften Lebenswege dieser vier Menschen. Und plötzlich geschieht ein Mord ...

Reader's Digest Im Schatten Der Gotter; Funf Minuten Verspatung; Mutter Macht Geschichten; Zerreissprobe

Ist niemand da, der mich hört? - bk1059; Bastei Lübbe; Taylor Caldwell; pocket_book; 1980