Fortune's Favorites Summary
Colleen McCullough

Everything you need to understand or teach Fortune's Favorites by Colleen McCullough.

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Fortune's Favorites Summary

The most obvious theme in Fortune's Favorites is that of fortune and destiny — to greatness, disaster, or obscurity.

Most of the major characters — Caesar, Sulla, Pompey, Spartacus, and Sertorius — are described as either being one of "fortune's favorites" or having been completely abandoned by fortune.

Sulla, who had previously nicknamed himself Felix (lucky), loses his luck — his beloved son has already died; his wife dies in a welter of...

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