A novel about Cicero and the Rome he tried to save.

Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. His long voyage, dogged by tragedy, ends not in the great city of New York but in the bigoted, small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania, where his younger brother,...

Inner conflict over the course of his life impels a very successful middle-aged businessman to an attempted suicide and then into a trance-like state. A psychiatrist and long-time friend tries to help the man come to terms with his problem, and, in the process, finds the strength to deal with his own personal crisis.

New York Times Bestseller: In Victorian Britain, an affluent woman hosts a group of Catholic priests in her home-and listens as they tell their stories. Rose, a young girl visiting her grandmother, sits among eleven priests from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. As each guest shares the most challenging moments of their vocations, tests of faith that have brought them face-to-face with the miseries, temptations, and evils that lurk beyond the peaceful...

Follows the life of immigrant Joseph Armagh and his rise to financial and political power.