Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Follett, Ken

Verlag: Dutton, New York, 2010

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition brown boards/black spine/gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Cast of Characters; Prologue; Historical Characters; and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with color maps on both the front and rear endpapers. ".Fall of Giants is Follett's magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits . Gus Dewar, and American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House . two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution . . Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London. These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a cole mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action is fast-moving, and the characters are rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic. In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves - and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again." - excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007923

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century ...

Verlag: Dutton, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition