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The Ring
The Ring
Author: Danielle Steel
ISBN-13: 9780440173922
ISBN-10: 0440173922
Publication Date: 1983
Pages: 480
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 86 ratings
Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Paperback
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classic Steel. Early in her career (1981), and not as formula-bound.
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Follow three generations of family through The Ring. Through war torn Germany to America. Good Book.
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Just like the other Steele novels
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While Danielle Steel's books may not hold high literary status, her books are popular, and "The Ring" is one of her best efforts.

Steel, through her well honed writing skills, takes the female character through several love relationships starting with a character that she learned to love against all odds. Her love of a German Nazi soldier, and her love of another, finally leads to finding the greatest love of her life. Read the book and you'll find out how love does endure through all situations and finally wins out. One of her best books.
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like this book, read it a very long time. but liked it
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in a time of war one family will lose the fight to stay together, and one woman will win the battle to reunite them.
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This is one of my favorites by her...
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Great read!
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one of steel's best, very romantic
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Book Description
In Germany engulfed by war and hatred, the beautiful wife of an influential banker fell in love with a German author. His Jewish heritage led them both to death. The husband who survives her lives on to protect her memory, and their children. And the ring he passes on to his daughter, Ariana von Gotthard, remains a bond of love between them. Separated from her family, and unable to escape Germany, Ariana is finally arrested. A young Nazi officer offers her survival and hope for the future. Tragedy and a sudden twist of fate carries Ariana to America, to a chilling deception, and a new life of unfamiliar terrors. Her past seemingly lost forever, her future uncertain, the ring she still clings to is all she has left of her father and brother. And in time it will become the bridge from her past to her future.
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An ill-fated affair between Kassandra von Gotthard, a married German socialite, and her lover, a Jewish writer, at the beginning of Hitler's ethnic cleansing campaign results in tragedy for Kassandra's children, especially her beautiful daughter Ariana. When her father and brother disappear, Ariana is arrested by the Reich. Facing imprisonment and repeated rape at the hands of unscrupulous soldiers who desire to humble the lovely blond, Ariana jumps at the opportunity to become a cook for a kind Nazi officer. Gradually, the two are able to put the specter of war behind them and fall in love. But calamity strikes again, leaving Ariana alone once more and running for her life. Desperately sick and pregnant, Ariana lands in New York, part of the wave of refugees brought there by relief organizations. Sponsored, then befriended, then betrayed, by the Liebman family, Ariana slowly recovers in time for the Christmas birth of her son. And Noel, a kind man who loves Ariana, gives her the strength to make a life for herself and for him, which she does, finally finding true happiness. Danielle Steel creates a tale of the phases of life and love that we all experience against a brutal background that hopefully will not be experienced ever again.
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Good short read
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In a Germany engulfed by war and hatred, the beautiful wife of an influential banker, fell in love with a German author. His Jewish heritage led them both to death. The husband who survives her lives on to protect her memory, and their children. And the ring he passes on to his daughter, Ariana von Gotthard, remains a bond of love between them. Separated from her family, and unable to escape Germany, Ariana is finally arrested. A young Nazi officer offers her survival and hope for the future. Tragedy and a sudden twist of fate carries Ariana to America, to chilling deception, and a new life of unfamiliar terrors. Her past seemingly lost forever, her future uncertain, the ring she still clings to is all she has left of her father and brother. And in time it will become the bridge from her past to her future.
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The story weaves generations and crosses continents. Lives impact others' lives like the ripple effect of a stone skipping across a pond.
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A family driven apart by over-whemling passions and then brought together by enduring love. Its the story of the ring and and a promise made to keep forever.
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Wonderful book! I reccommend this book to anyone!
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Kassandra, the beautiful young wife of a powerful Berlin banker, and Dolff, the world-famous novelist...in Hitler's Germany, it was inevitable that their love would end in sorrow and cast its shadow over the von Gotthards for generations...

THE RING--A gift of love that Kassandra von Gotthard never lived to see...that would give Ariana, her daughter, the one thing she wanted most and -- years later -- threaten the happiness of Noel, Ariana's son.

THE RING -- The magnificent novelt that seeps across this century's most dramatic years...an unforgettable story of families driven apart by overwhelming passions...brought togehter by the power of compassion and enduring love.
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Mine has a different cover than this..
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Kassandra, the beautiful young wife of a powerful Berlin Banker, and Dolff, the world-famous novelist....in Hitler's Germany
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My ISBN matches this book, but my cover is pink with Danielle Steel in gold at the top. The picture is of the signet ring. This was a great book. The story covers the three women who have inherited the ring and how each woman was affected by the Holocaust.
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Good read
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"the circle of eternal love...the promise meant to be kept forever. From the back cover - Kassandra, the beautiful young wife of a powerful Berlin banker, and Dolff, the world-famous novelist...in Hitler's Germany. It was inevitable that their love would end in sorrow and cast its shadow over the von Gotthards for generations...
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Ms Steel excels at pacing her narrative, which races forward, mirroring the frenetic lives chronicled here; men and women swept up in bewildering change, seeking solutions to problems never before faced........
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Pretty pink & gold cover PB, Germany during war, Jewish heritage couple pass on ring, further adventures