全球顶级畅销小说文库 巨人的陨落 1

3 (p1): 序 成人礼
3 (p1-1): 第一章
33 (p2): Part 1 天地失色
33 (p2-1): 第二章
96 (p2-2): 第三章
132 (p2-3): 第四章
155 (p2-4): 第五章
186 (p2-5): 第六章
213 (p2-6): 第七章
241 (p2-7): 第八章
283 (p2-8): 第九章
318 (p2-9): 第十章
342 (p2-10): 第十一章 It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution.
Five families, American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh, move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. The plot contains profanity, graphic sexual situations, and violence. Book #1 Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London 本书为英国现代长篇小说, 讲述了: 故事发生在第一次世界大战期间, 讲述了五个截然不同又微妙关联着的家庭, 在战火中的悲欢离合.因为不同的信仰和价值观, 等待每个人的都是不同的命运, 但每一个迈向死亡的生命都在热烈地生长