Spanning nearly fifty years, from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, "The Touch" tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees from a childhood of poverty in Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and the American gold fields. In the process, he meets the woman he loves but can never marry - and marries a woman who can never love him. When Alexander Kinross writes home to Scotland for a bride, he is remembered only as a shiftless young boilermaker's apprentice. Since he encloses a draft for one thousand pounds, however, arrangements are swiftly made to send him his young cousin Elizabeth, although it is her sister Jean whom he had wanted. So Elizabeth makes her way across the Atlantic by steam ship, and from there by sail, towards a land she knows nothing about, and a husband about whom she knows still less. Arriving in Sydney, she meets Alexander - handsome, devilish in appearance and manner, and obviously rich, and determined to get richer. He marries her, takes her home across the wild and barren countryside to his great house. What he does not tell her is that he made his first fortune in the California gold rush - and fell in love with perhaps the one woman he will ever truly love. Intermingling the stories of a rich cast of characters, and bringing the novel to a stunning climax as Alexander Kinross sacrifices himself for his wife's happiness, this latest novel is a stunning story of love and passion set against the harsh and brutal world of emerging modern Australia.
發表於2024-12-24
Colleen McCullough the Touch 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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Colleen是寫故事的高手,但覺得她的故事也是有套路的,和荊棘鳥一樣,貌似普通的開頭,高潮部分迴環麯摺,結尾則是滄桑過後的平靜。這個故事裏,最最喜歡的是Alexander,然後是Ruby, 不喜歡Elisabath。Colleen非常善於鋪排情節,高潮處總看的忘瞭時間。
評分Colleen是寫故事的高手,但覺得她的故事也是有套路的,和荊棘鳥一樣,貌似普通的開頭,高潮部分迴環麯摺,結尾則是滄桑過後的平靜。這個故事裏,最最喜歡的是Alexander,然後是Ruby, 不喜歡Elisabath。Colleen非常善於鋪排情節,高潮處總看的忘瞭時間。
評分Colleen是寫故事的高手,但覺得她的故事也是有套路的,和荊棘鳥一樣,貌似普通的開頭,高潮部分迴環麯摺,結尾則是滄桑過後的平靜。這個故事裏,最最喜歡的是Alexander,然後是Ruby, 不喜歡Elisabath。Colleen非常善於鋪排情節,高潮處總看的忘瞭時間。
評分Colleen是寫故事的高手,但覺得她的故事也是有套路的,和荊棘鳥一樣,貌似普通的開頭,高潮部分迴環麯摺,結尾則是滄桑過後的平靜。這個故事裏,最最喜歡的是Alexander,然後是Ruby, 不喜歡Elisabath。Colleen非常善於鋪排情節,高潮處總看的忘瞭時間。
評分Colleen是寫故事的高手,但覺得她的故事也是有套路的,和荊棘鳥一樣,貌似普通的開頭,高潮部分迴環麯摺,結尾則是滄桑過後的平靜。這個故事裏,最最喜歡的是Alexander,然後是Ruby, 不喜歡Elisabath。Colleen非常善於鋪排情節,高潮處總看的忘瞭時間。
Colleen McCullough the Touch 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載