Kingsbridge Novels Collection 4 Books Set By Ken Follett (The Evening and the Morning, The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire) Summary and Reviews

Kingsbridge Novels Collection 4 Books Set By Ken Follett (The Evening and the Morning, The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire) by Ken Follett

Kingsbridge Novels Collection 4 Books Set By Ken Follett (The Evening and the Morning, The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire)

by Ken Follett

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Ken Follett The Kingsbridge Novels Stories Collection 4 Books Set (The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, The Evening and the Morning).

The Evening and the Morning
A Time of Conflict It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better future after a devastating Viking raid shatters the life he hoped for.

The Pillars of the Earth
A mason with a 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.

World Without End
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.As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war.

A Column of Fire
1558, and Europe is in revolt as religious hatred sweeps the continent. Elizabeth Tudor has ascended to the throne but she is not safe in this dangerous new world. There are many who would see her removed, not least Mary Queens of Scots, who lies in wait in Paris

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Ken Follett is one of the world's best-loved authors, selling more than 188 million copies of his thirty-six 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 Follett's most popular 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, and prequel The Evening and the Morning, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold more than fifty 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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