World Without End
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Bindung: Gebundene Ausgabe
EAN: 9780333908426
ISBN: 0333908422
Label: Pan Macmillan
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Anzahl Seiten: 1111
Erscheinungsdatum: Oktober 04, 2007
Herausgeber: Pan Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum: Oktober 04, 2007
Studio: Pan Macmillan
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Produktbeschreibung:Book Description:Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End. 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.
Questions for Ken Follett
Amazon.com: What a phenomenon The Pillars of the Earth has become. It was a bestseller when it was published in 1989, but it's only gained in popularity since then--it's the kind of book that people are incredibly passionate about. What has it been like to see it grow an audience like that?
Follett: At first I was a little disappointed that Pillars sold not much better than my previous book. Now I think that was because it was a little different and people were not sure how to take it. As the years went by and it became more and more popular, I felt kind of vindicated. And I was very grateful to readers who spread the news by word of mouth.
Amazon.com: Pillars was a departure for you from your very successful modern thrillers, and after writing it you returned to thrillers. Did you think you'd ever come back to the medieval period? What brought you to do so after 18 years?
Follett: The main reason was the way people talk to me about Pillars. Some readers say, "It's the best book I've ever read." Others tell me they have read it two or three times. I got to the point where I really had to find out whether I could do that again.
Amazon.com: In World Without End you return to Kingsbridge, the same town as the previous book, but two centuries later. What has changed in two hundred years?
Follett: In the time of Prior Philip, the monastery was a powerful force for good in medieval society, fostering education and technological advance. Two hundred years later it has become a wealthy and conservative institution that tries to hold back change. This leads to some of the major conflicts in the story.
Amazon.com: World Without End features two strong-willed female characters, Caris and Gwenda. What room to maneuver did a medieval English town provide for a woman of ambition?
Follett: Medieval people paid lip-service to the idea that women were inferior, but in practice women could be merchants, craftspeople, abbesses, and queens. There were restrictions, but strong women often found ways around them.
Amazon.com: When you sit down to imagine yourself into the 14th century, what is the greatest leap of imagination you have to make from our time to theirs? Is there something we can learn from that age that has been lost in our own time?
Follett: It's hard to imagine being so dirty. People bathed very rarely, and they must have smelled pretty bad. And what was kissing like in the time before toothpaste was invented?
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Da schon so viel über das Buch geschrieben wurde, möchte ich meine Rezension auf einen Punkt beschränken, der vielleicht bei einer Kaufentscheidung helfen kann:
"Die Tore der Welt" wird als geschichtlicher Roman kategorisiert. Beim Lesen aber fühlte ich mich eher an diese typischen Fernsehserien der 1980er wie "Dallas" oder "Denver-Clan" erinnert: die ganze Handlung dreht sich um eine überschaubare Anzahl Personen, die alle irgendwie miteinander verwandt oder bekannt sind, und deren Freundschaften und Feindschaften, Intrigen und Bündnisse. Das 14. Jahrhundert bietet dazu eigentlich nur eine Kulisse, ebensogut hätte die Geschichte mit leichten Änderungen auch 100 Jahre später oder früher spielen können.
Dazu kommt, dass die Denk- und Handlungsweisen vieler Charaktere anachronistisch, also unzeitgemäß, dargestellt sind - oft wirkt das, als wären Menschen aus unserer Zeit mit einer Zeitmaschine zurückgereist.
Follett bezieht sich nur selten auf tatsächliche ...
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Genau so spannend und toll geschrieben wie Die Säulen der Erde. Auch im englischen Original sehr gut zu verstehen und für mich Lesegenuss pur!
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Ken Follett is at times a great writer and at times a so so one. With "Pillars of the Earth" Follett delivered not only a great read but also exquisitely well written prose that could easily be classified as "literature" rather than "pulp". "Pillars" has always been, in my humble opinion, one of the finest pieces of writing of modern times, so for me "World Without End" had a very tough act to follow.
Follett does an admirable job in this sequel, but top "Pillars" it does not. Again, Follett delivers an exciting story with believable twists and turns, good dialogue, believable characters and good pacing. The atmosphere is very fleshed out and you can really envision yourself in a realistic middle ages setting, Follett has obviously done his research exhaustively (though I must admit I am not an expert). I would not put "World Without End" in the "literature" category however, this level the book does not reach. This is more of a bookstore find than something that should be taught ...
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Zuerst muss ich erwähnen, dass selten ein Buch bei mir so zwiespältige Gefühle ausgelöst hat wie dieses. Vom ersten Band Die Säulen der Erde", den ich vor einigen Jahren las, war ich hellauf begeistert und erwartete mir eine ebensolch hervorragende Fortsetzung. Diese wurden aber nur zum Teil erfüllt.
Im zweiten Band geht es in erster Linie um den Baumeister, Merthin, den bösen und exzentrischen Ralph und zwei Frauen, Caris und Gwenda, die um ihr Lebensglück kämpfen. Alles spielt sich wieder in der Stadt Kingsbridge ab, die auch im Mittelpunkt des ersten Bandes stand.
Man liest über Bauprojekte, Hexenverfolgung, Mord und Intrigen, Unterdrückung der Unfreien und Bauern, über Liebe und Selbstverwirklichung, Hass, Neid und Eifersucht, die Pest und die Bösartigkeit so manch Lehnsherrn über seine Untertanen.
Zu Beginn lässt man sich von Ken Follett dazu verleiten anzunehmen, dass der Bau einer neuen Brücke in Kingsbridge der Mittelpunkt in dieser Geschichte ...
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I was completely excited about the long-awaited sequel to the novel Pillars Of The Earth. Finally the new historical saga has been written by Ken Follett. This is truly an enormous tale which seems to touch nearly all human emotion - love&hate, hope&despair, loyalty&betrayal. The novel let you deeply lost in. I just could not stop reading...
All the more I was surprised at some negative critics here. But I see it differently... Perhaps some scenes havent been necessary being told in repetition, of course. Though in my opinion Ken Follett has created a story which keeps your interest, after all. And only this is what counts on. Does the criticism do good to anyone? No, I think not. Why allways searching for a comparison and similarity to Pillars Of The Earth again and again? World Without End is an independent and brilliant work.
The same nonsense has been done with the book Cathedrale Of The Sea by Ildefonso Falcones. The book is also an independent and amaizing work. There is a quite ...
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