A Prologue to Love
by Taylor Caldwell
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The story of a Boston heiress who wishes for nothing--except happiness--by a New York Times-bestselling author who "never falters when it comes to storytelling" (Publishers Weekly). Caroline Ames is rich beyond imagining. But after a childhood with a cold, rejecting father, she is irrationally terrified of poverty, seething with hostility, and incapable of giving or receiving love. Those who cross her path tend to find themselves at the very least suffering, if not thoroughly broken. A show more Prologue to Love introduces three generations of the Ames family during the Gilded Age and the early twentieth century--painting a compassionate portrait of a difficult woman, those who have hurt her, and those she has hurt. It is a vivid, profoundly moving novel that explores the damage that everyday evil can do--and what it takes to overcome it. show lessTags
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Taylor Caldwell is dense, detailed and not always easy: she takes attention as she draws her characters and then draws them together (or apart). Her writing is wonderful, and worth the endeavor.
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Taylor Caldwell was born in Manchester, England in 1900. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1907. She attended the University of Buffalo. Caldwell began writing stories at age eight. She wrote several best-selling novels including Dynasty of Death, The Strong City, The Sound of Thunder, Bright Flows the River and Answer As a Man. She show more wrote historical fiction and some of her titles contained religious themes. She also wrote under the pen name Max Reiner. Her memoir, Growing Up Tough, was published in 1971. Her titles won her numerous awards including the National League of American Pen Woman Gold Medal, Buffalo Evening News Award, Grand Prix Chatvain and two International Awards for Book of the Year. She died in Greenwich, Connecticut on September 2, 1985. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- A Prologue to Love
- Original title
- A Prologue to Love
- Original publication date
- 1961
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- 5 — Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
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