There Was A Time Author:Taylor Caldwell Taylor Caldwell's magnificent novel of the development of a great young writer, set against the turbulent, restless background of America between the two World Wars...........THERE WAS A TIME tells the vigorous and dramatic stroy of how Frank Clair, born into poverty, reared in bitterness and privation, vows to win wealth and fame at any price--... more »-how he learns to deny his family, friends, his own integrity---how his warped vision forces him to twist all human values to at last attain his glittering goal...........And it is also the story of the strange love that haunted his violent life---the story of the willful, high-born beauty who was always so near and yet so far---tempting, taunting, tantalizing him into a fiery passion that not even his own burning ambition could crush...."« less