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The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and epic.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- First published
- September 1998
- Pages
- 597
- Publisher
- TIME WARNER PAPERBACKS, Futura, G.K.Hall & Co
- Editions
- 79
- Language
- Spanish, Polish, gre, vie
- ISBN
- 9788490704820
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“On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday.”
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