Kingsbridge
Dutton
October 2007
On Sale: October 9, 2007
1024 pages ISBN: 0525950079 EAN: 9780525950073 Kindle: B000W93CHC Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide.
The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of
all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written
the most-anticipated sequel of the year-World Without
End.
In 1989 Ken Follett
astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the
Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century
England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of
the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were
overwhelmed-?it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you?
(Chicago Tribune)-and readers everywhere hoped for
a sequel.
World Without End takes place
in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the
townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral
that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth.
The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a
web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge,
but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and
women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves
at a crossroad of new ideas- about medicine, commerce,
architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of
the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds,
the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point
against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural
disaster ever to strike the human race-the Black Death.
Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen
years since its predecessor, World Without End
breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once
again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing
at the top of his craft.
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