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The Pillars of the Earth, Paperback / softback Book

The Pillars of the Earth Paperback / softback

Part of the The Kingsbridge Novels series

Paperback / softback

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An epic, spellbinding tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece.

A Mason with a DreamIt is 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound.

With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other. A Monk with a Burning MissionPhilip is the church prior of Kingsbridge.

A resourceful man, he knows that if his town is to survive at all, it must find a way to truly thrive.

He decides, then, to build Kingsbridge the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. A World of High Ideals and Savage CrueltyAs the prior recruits his mason, so begins a journey of ambition, anarchy and the struggle for absolute power.

Facing enemies that would thwart them, they will stop at nothing to fulfil their grand plans of Kingsbridge.

Soon build tensions between good and evil, turning church against state, and brother against brother . . . The Pillars of the Earth is the first in The Kingsbridge Novels series, followed by World Without End and A Column of Fire.

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