sequel to The Pillars of the Earth
NAL Trade
October 2008
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Featuring: Caris; Merthin; Gwenda
1024 pages ISBN: 045122499X EAN: 9780451224996 Trade Size Add to Wish List
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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