#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.
