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World Without End
出版社： Macmillan Education
書林書號：
20114138
作者：
Follett, Ken
定價：
540
會員價：
$459
ISBN：
9780330490702
出版年份：
2008
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
1237
  • 本書介紹
上帝之柱續篇：天地無涯

　流浪異鄉的小男孩能否再度重建親手燒毀的教堂？
　　單憑一己之力能否對抗整個國家與教廷？！

屏息以待的精采完結篇一次典藏！
全球熱賣1500萬冊 千萬讀者口耳相傳的大教堂傳奇

　　II　崩裂的大地

　　如果修建大教堂的代價是鮮血與死亡
　　單憑對上帝的信仰究竟夠不夠？

　　那天晚上，十一歲的傑克忐忑不安地溜進王橋老教堂，雙手顫抖著把即將燃盡的蠟燭丟到廢木料上，從此改變了湯姆一家人的際遇。

　　為了重建教堂，菲力普副院長周旋於爾虞我詐的野心家之間，讓自己豎立了永遠的敵人－－沃爾倫主教。命運多舛的艾蓮娜，為了完成在獄中對父親的誓言，帶著弟弟在王橋鎮胼手胝足地經營起羊毛生意，她和傑克的情愫也暗暗滋生。不料，昔日的惡夢威廉．漢姆雷，卻又為平靜的王橋帶來死亡的陰影……

　　王位爭奪戰方興未艾，在這片烽火綿延的崩裂大地上，王橋大教堂是否能成為眾人新生的希望？

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. Critics were overwhelmed—“it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you” (Chicago Tribune)—and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel.

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 crossroad 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 breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.

延伸閱讀

Pillars of the Earth

書林書號：20114121

作者：Follett, Ken

ISBN：9780330450133

會員價：459

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