![]() ![]() Fans of Follett's previous medieval epic will be well rewarded. , readers will be captivated by the four well-drawn central characters as they prove heroic, depraved, resourceful or mean. ![]() While the novel lacks the thematic unity of Pillars Follett studs the narrative with gems of unexpected information such as the English nobility's multilingual training and the builder's technique for carrying heavy, awkward objects. Four children, who will become a peasant's wife, a knight, a builder and a nun, share a traumatic experience that will affect each of them differently as their lives play out from 1327 to 1361. ' families with such momentous events of the era as the Black Death and the wars with France. Weighed in with almost 1,000 pages of juicy historical fiction about the construction of a 12th-century cathedral in Kingsbridge, England, bestseller Follett returns to 14th-century Kingsbridge with an equally weighty tome that deftly braids the fate of several of the offspring of Pillars Eighteen years after Pillars of the Earth World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the. ![]()
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