New York

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NEWYORK- THE WORLD'S GREATEST CITY AND THE
WORLD'S GREATEST STORY.
Edward Rutherfurd tells this story as no other author could - from the epic, empty
grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the
intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived today at breakneck speed - four
centuries brought to brilliant life by one of the world's greatest historical novelists.
The novel begins with a tiny Indian fishing village and the Dutch traders who first
carved out their hopes amidst the splendour of the wilderness. The British settlers
and merchants followed, with their aristocratic governors and unpopular taxation
which led to rebellion, war and the American Nation. Yet a country that had already
rent itself asunder once did so again over slavery. As the country fought its bloody
Civil War, the city was torn apart by deadly riots.
Hopes and dreams, greed and corruption - they have always been the companions of
freedom and... Tovább

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NEWYORK- THE WORLD'S GREATEST CITY AND THE
WORLD'S GREATEST STORY.
Edward Rutherfurd tells this story as no other author could - from the epic, empty
grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the
intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived today at breakneck speed - four
centuries brought to brilliant life by one of the world's greatest historical novelists.
The novel begins with a tiny Indian fishing village and the Dutch traders who first
carved out their hopes amidst the splendour of the wilderness. The British settlers
and merchants followed, with their aristocratic governors and unpopular taxation
which led to rebellion, war and the American Nation. Yet a country that had already
rent itself asunder once did so again over slavery. As the country fought its bloody
Civil War, the city was torn apart by deadly riots.
Hopes and dreams, greed and corruption - they have always been the companions of
freedom and opportunity in the city's teeming streets. As the immigrant ships
berthed next to Ellis Island in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, they poured more
and more Germans, Irish, Italians and Jews into the churning ethnic mix of the city.
A heady see-saw of wealth and poverty was seen in the Roaring Twenties and the
Great Crash, the city's future symbolised by its buildings which literally touched the
sky: the Empire State, the Chrysler Building, the Twin Towers.
Rutherfurd tells this irresistible story through a cast of fictional and true characters
whose fates interweave in the rise and fall, fall and rise of the city's fortunes. It is the
story of how in four centuries New York became the envy of the world, the Big Apple,
sometimes loved and sometimes hated, until those who envied it most sought to
destroy it. And in telling the story through the lens of New York, Rutherfurd
itself in this epic masterpiece.

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