Title: The Thorn Birds
First published: September 1998
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Clergy, Catholic Church, Catholics, Clergy in fiction, Catholics in fiction, Catholic Church in fiction, Australia, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, American Love stories, Australian fiction, epic fiction, religious fiction, romantic fiction, love stories, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, romance, historical, Catholic church, clergy, fiction, English fiction, Priests, American Romance fiction, Anglais (langue), Lectures et morceaux choisis, Roman américain, Chang pian xiao shuo, Clergy, fiction, Fiction,  Families, Fiction, romance, historical, general", Readers, Romans, nouvelles, Clergé, Église catholique
Places: Australia, New Zealand, Rome, the Vatican, England, Greece, Drogheda, Outback, ao da li ya
People: Padraic Cleary, Fiona Cleary, the Clearys, Meggie Cleary, Ralph de Bricassart, Francis Cleary, Justine O'Neill, Mary Elizabeth Cleary Carson, Luke O'Neill, Dane O'Neill, Luddie Muller, Anne Mueller, Bob Cleary, Jack Cleary, Hughie Cleary, Stuart Cleary, Harold Cleary, James Cleary, Patrick Cleary, Rainer Moerling Hartheim, Vittorio di Contini-Verchese
Time periods: 1915-1917, 1921-1969, xian dai
LC classification: PR'9619.3'M32'T514'1978