Ken Follett, página 8 de 30

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. 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.Ken Follett's masterful epic "The Pillars of the Earth" enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now "World Without End" takes the readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change. 'Follett's storytelling skills keep you compulsively turning the pages to the satisfactory ending of good triumphant over evil' - "Daily Mail".

Edición especial de una de las novelas que más años ha estado en la lista de los más vendidos. El gran maestro de la narrativa de acción y suspense nos transporta a la Edad Media, a un fascinante mundo de reyes, damas, caballeros, pugnas feudales, castillos y ciudades amuralladas. El amor y la muerte se entrecruzan vibrantemente en este magistral tapiz cuyo centro es la construccion de una catedral gotica. La historia se inicia con el ahorcamiento publico de un inocente y finaliza con la humillacion de un rey. Los pilares de la tierra es la obra maestra de Ken Follett y constituye una excepcional evocacion de una epoca de violentas pasiones. Esta edicion especial incluye un apendice que desvela las claves de la novela.

Murder, intrigue, plague and pestilence in the stunning sequel to the international bestseller The Pillars of the Earth.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. 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. Ken Folletts masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.

It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande an discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to England-except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church: a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely ever to get off the ground...even if Harald knew how to fly it.

In 1989, Follett astonished the literary world with "The Pillars of the Earth," a sweeping epic novel set in 12th-century England that centered on the building of a cathedral and the hundreds of lives it affected. This sequel takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries later.

England im Jahre 1327. Es ist der Tag nach Allerheiligen. In der Stadt Kingsbridge trifft sich im Schatten der Kathedrale das Volk. Vier Kinder flüchten vor dem Trubel in den nahe gelegenen Wald. Dort werden sie Zeugen eines Kampfes - und eines tödlichen Geheimnisses.Merthin, ein Nachfahre von Jack Builder, dem Erbauer der Kathedrale, hat dessen Genie und rebellische Natur geerbt. Sein starker Bruder Ralph strebt den Aufstieg in die Ritterschaft an. Caris, Tochter eines Wollhändlers, hat den Traum, Arzt zu werden. Gwenda, Kind eines Taglöhners, will nur ihrer Liebe folgen. Und da ist noch Godwyn, Caris' Vetter, ein junger Mönch, der entschlossen ist, Prior von Kingsbridge zu werden. Koste es, was es wolle.Ehrgeiz und Liebe, Stolz und Rache werden den Weg dieser Menschen bestimmen. Pest und Krieg werden ihnen das Liebste nehmen, was sie besitzen. Glück und Unglück werden sie begleiten Doch sie werden die Hoffnung niemals aufgeben. Und immer wird der Schwur sie verfolgen, den sie an jenem schicksalhaften Tage leisteten.

Hitler e al potere, e in un mondo che si prepara a nuovi sconvolgimenti sembra compiersi il destino delle cinque famiglie gia protagoniste de La caduta dei giganti.Vite, passioni, speranze che verranno divorate dalla piu grande e crudele guerra nella storia dell''umanita, fra Londra e Berlino, la Spagna e Mosca, Pearl Harbor e Hiroshima, nelle residenze private come sui campi di battaglia che hanno segnato l''intero secolo.

I giorni dell''eternita e l''appassionante conclusione dell''epica trilogia "The Century", dedicata al Novecento, in cui Follett ci raconta le vicende di cinque famiglie variamente legate tra loro: una americana, una tedesca, una russa, una inglese e una gallese.A partire dagli anni Sessanta e fino alla caduta del Muro di Berlino, passando attraverso eventi sociali, politici ed economici tra i piu drammatici e significativi del cosiddetto "Secolo breve": le lotte per i diritti civili in America, la crisi dei mis...

The stunning sequel to the international bestseller The Pillars of the Earth Murder, intrigue, plague and pestilence in the stunning sequel to the international bestseller The Pillars of the Earth.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. 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.Ken Folletts masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.

The award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller and a distinguished film and launched the career of master storyteller Ken Follett.His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle.He is Hitler''s prize undercover agent - a cold and professional killer.It is 1944 and weeks before D-Day. The Allies are disguising their invasion plans with a phoney armada of ships and planes. Their plan would be ruined if an enemy agent found out... and then The Needle does just that. Hunted by MI5, he leads a murderous trail across Britain to a waiting U-Boat. But he hasn''t planned for a storm-battered island, and the remarkable young woman who lives there...Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett''s breakthrough international bestseller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and a brave woman.

Mayo de 1944. La invasión aliada de Normandía es inminente. Felicity Clairet llamada 'el leopardo', es agente británico en la Francia ocupada. Ella tiene un plan audaz. Pero para alcanzar su objetivo, que necesitan para armar un equipo, formado solo por mujeres. No pueden ser exigente. Debido a su intencion de mantenerse exactamente diez dias. Y el enemigo es el leopardo ya en el camino.

Set during the outbreak of the Second World War, Night Over Water is a feat of storytelling from the bestselling master of the historical thriller, Ken Follett. On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain has declared war, a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southampton to board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built - the Pan American Clipper, bound for New York: an English aristocrat, fleeing with his family and a fortune in jewels; a German scientist, escaping from the Nazis; a murderer under FBI escort; a young wife running away from a domineering husband; and a handsome, unscrupulous thief . . .