Colleen McCullough's 1977 novel, The Thorn Birds, became an international publishing sensation as its sales climbed past the seven-million mark. This saga of three generations in an Irish Catholic fam...
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Below, Mitchell offers an unfavorable review of A Creed for the Third Millennium.
We're pushing the fast-forward button here to 2032–33—not quite 50 years from now. But when you t...
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In the following essay, Steinberg reports on McCullough's Roman history series and offers insight into the author's motivations for writing it.
To meet with Colleen McCullough one genera...
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In the following review, Grimstad provides a brief plot summary of An Indecent Obsession and comments that the novel lacks complexity.
In her third novel, the author of the large-canvas epic The Thorn...
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In the following review, Gray provides an unfavorable review of A Creed for the Third Millennium.
Author Colleen McCullough's fourth novel began selling briskly weeks before its official public...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
This first novel of awakenings [Tim] is a lovely and refreshing addition to tales of love. It is also, however, a story with a difference, one that might be charact...
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Critical Essay by William A. Nolen
[In An Indecent Obsession, the] second world war is winding down. On an unidentified island in the Pacific, in a hospital to which wounded Australian soldiers have b...
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Critical Essay by Joanne Greenberg
Ward X [the setting for "An Indecent Obsession"] has reached a certain balance with the help of a nurse-catalyst, Sister Honour Langtry, who initially ...
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Critical Essay by Carol Rumens
Belying its label, Colleen McCullough's new chart-topper [An Indecent Obsession] is in the mould of one of those improving tales for young ladies with which our g...
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Critical Essay by Thomas E. Helm
One would not describe An Indecent Obsession as spellbinding, nor think of Australian novelist Colleen McCullough's treatment here of an army nurse assigned to ...
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Critical Essay by Best Sellers
The course of this novel [Tim] is rather predictable and the bitterness of the last two pages does not restore realism to what is basically a very romantic tale—b...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Ferrari
Tim is a simple, effective first novel by Colleen McCullough whose native Australia serves as the book's setting.
The novel is direct rather than subtle. It t...
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