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The Pillars of the Earth
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ISBN-13:
9780451166890
Veröffentl:
1990
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.1990
Seiten:
1024
Autor:
Ken Follett
Gewicht:
484 g
Format:
172x103x45 mm
Serie:
01 1, Kingsbridge-Roman Kingsbridge (english)
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ken Follett is one of the world s best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. Follett s first bestseller was Eye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War.
In 1989 The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author s most successful novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah s Book Club pick.
Its sequels, World Without End and A Column of Fire, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide.
Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors.
In 1989 The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author s most successful novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah s Book Club pick.
Its sequels, World Without End and A Column of Fire, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide.
Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors.
"The Pillars of the Earth" tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known; of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul; of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame; and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother. A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece.
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Im mittelalterlichen England spielt dieser historische Roman. Erzählt wird die Geschichte von Tom Builder, einem Steinmetz, der davon träumt, eine Kathedrale zu bauen. Es herrschen jedoch Krieg und bittere Armut im Land. Nach dem Tod seiner Frau trifft Tom auf die geheimnisvolle Ellen, die verstoßen und rechtlos mit ihrem Sohn Jack in den Wäldern lebt und die seine Gefährtin wird. Nachdem schließlich unter einem neuen König, Heinrich II., Frieden im Land einkehrt, gelingt es Tom mit Hilfe von Jack, seine Pläne doch noch zu verwirklichen.