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The pillars of the earth [electronic resource] / Ken Follett.

Follett, Ken. (Author).

Summary:

Adventure saga of 12th century England, from a stone mason whose dream is to build a glorious cathedral to a man of God in a web of dangerous political intrigue.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781101438190 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
  • ISBN: 1101438193 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
  • ISBN: 9781101442197 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
  • ISBN: 1101442190 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (983, [16] p.) : col. ill.
  • Publisher: New York : Signet, [2010], c1989.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Cathedrals > Design and construction > Fiction.
Church architecture > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > Stephen, 1135-1154 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Electronic books.

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.


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