World Without End
- Authors: Ken Follett
- Series: Book 2 in the Kingsbridge series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Historical
- Rank:Top 50 in Best Family Saga Fiction on AmazonTop 100 in Best Multigenerational Fiction on AmazonTop 1000 in Best Suspense Thrillers on Amazon
- Rating: 4.6 based on 42,325 reviews
- Release Date: October 9, 2007
- Print length: 1024 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. Ken Follett's masterful epic "The Pillars of the Earth" enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now "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 devastating sweep of historical change.
Praise for World Without End
Populated with an immense cast of truly remarkable characters... this is not a book to be devoured in one sitting, tempting though that might be, but one to savor for its drama, depth, and richness.
So if historical fiction is your meat, here’s a rare treat. A feast of conflicts and struggles among religious authority, royal governance, the powerful unions (or guilds) of the day, and the peasantry... With World Without End, Follett proves his Pillars may be a rarity, but it wasn’t a fluke.
Readers will be captivated.
Follett tells a story that runs the gamut of life in the Middle Ages, and he does so in such a way that we are not only captivated but also educated. What else could you ask for?
A work that stands as something of a triumph of industry and professionalism.
[A] well-researched, beautifully detailed portrait of the late Middle Ages... Follett’s no-frills prose does its job, getting smoothly through more than a thousand pages of outlaws, war, death, sex, and politics to end with an edifice that is as well constructed and solid as Merthin’s bridge.
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