EAN: 9780451228376

KEN FOLLETT - GEBRAUCHT WORLD WITHOUT END - PRE...

#1 New York Times Bestseller  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.   World Without End is
its equally irresistible sequel-set two hundred years after The Pillars of the Earth and three
hundred years after the Kingsbridge prequel  The Evening and the Morning.  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 crossroads 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 is a "well-researched  beautifully detailed portrait of the late
Middle Ages" (The Washington Post) that once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author
writing at the top of his craft.

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