World Without End [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Follett, Ken

Verlag: Dutton, New York, 2007

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition black boards/black spine/copper spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Ken Follett; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments and About the Author. Illustrated with color front and rear endpapers. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "The most highly anticipated novel of the year. 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. In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the lterary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England that centered on the building of a cathedral and the men, women and children whose lives it changed forever. Critics were overwhelmed - "it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune) - and readers ever since have hoped for a sequel. And at last it is here. Althoug the two novels may be read in any order, 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. '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.' The Pillars of the Earth was "a novel that entertains, instructs and satisfies on a grand scale," said Publishers Weekly. "With this book, Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner." And now he has done it again. Three years in the writing, World Without End once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007572

Bibliografische Details

Titel: World Without End [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ...

Verlag: Dutton, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Hasselberger, Richard (jacket design)

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition