Ambitious nobles and churchmen take sides, hoping to gain advantages. Henry's nephew Stephen of Blois and Henry's daughter Maud fight for the throne. The sinking of the White Ship leaves King Henry I of England without a clear heir, and The Anarchy begins upon his death. The Preface includes the following sources: An Outline of European Architecture, by Nikolaus Pevsner, The Cathedral Builders, by Jean Gimpel, and The Medieval Machine, by Jean Gimpel. Kingsbridge Cathedral as described is based on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury. Follett set it in Marlborough, Wiltshire he chose that location because the cathedrals of Winchester, Gloucester, and Salisbury could be reached from there within a few days on horseback. You feel you know the place and the people as intimately as if you yourself were living there in the Middle Ages. It recreates, quite vividly, the entire life of the village and the people who live there. My publishers were a little nervous about such a very unlikely subject but, paradoxically, it is my most popular book. So the story covers the entire lives of the main characters. It took at least thirty years to build a cathedral and most took longer because they would run out of money, or be attacked or invaded. Before too long, it occurred to me to channel this enthusiasm into a novel. In preparing for writing, he was reading about medieval architecture, and: Alf, Follett tells readers that he grew up in a Puritan-based family, whose worship space was very spare. In the 1999 preface to Ellen and her son Jack. It is the first book in the Kingsbridge Series - the others being a sequel, set 150 years later, entitled World Without End (2007), and A Column of Fire (2017) set in Elizabethan England. The book was selected in the United States for Oprah's Book Club in 2007. The book was listed at no. 33 on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 survey with the goal of finding the "nation's best-loved book". The Pillars of the Earth became his best-selling work which was later made into an 8-part miniseries in 2010. The book traces the development of Gothic architecture out of the preceding Romanesque architecture, and the fortunes of the Kingsbridge priory and village against the backdrop of historical events of the time.īefore this novel was published, Follett was known for writing in the thriller genre. Set in the 12th century, the novel covers the time between the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Becket, but focuses primarily on the Anarchy. The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by Welsh author Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England.
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