by Colleen McCullough · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408012283
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«La corona de hierba» is the historical novel by Colleen McCullough, published by Planeta Pub Corp in hardcover (850 pages, in Spanish).
La corona de hierba continues the chronicle begun with El primer hombre de Roma: the confrontation between the generals Marius and Sulla for power, while a new generation of ambitious men strives to stand out. The Republic, threatened by the Italic neighbors and by an Asian invader, lives through a time of conspiracies, prophecies and shifting loyalties.
Second novel in the series «El primer hombre de Roma»; its original title is «The Grass Crown».
For fans of historical fiction set in the Roman Republic and of plots of power and war.
Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas. In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim. Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a successful television miniseries.
