num_pages: 36
description: Unabridged Audiobook version read by John Lee.Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now, The Pillars of the Earth is available for the first time to a new audience of readers, in this attractive new trade paperback edition.In 12th-century England, the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral signals the dawn of a new age. This majestic creation will bond clergy and kings, knights and peasants together in a story of toil, faith, ambition and rivalry. A sweeping tale of the turbulent middle ages, The Pillars of the Earth is a masterpiece from one of the world's most popular authors.Tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known... of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother.
language: English
title: The Pillars of the Earth
titlecomplete: The Pillars of the Earth
characters: Jack Jackson, Alfred Builder, Tom Builder, Stephen of England, Thomas Becket, Waleran Bigod, Remigius, Ellen, Aliena, Prior Philip, Henry II of England, Richard of Kingsbridge, Lord Percy Hamleigh, William Hamleigh, Empress Matilda, Lady Regan Hamleigh
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Fantasy, Adult, Novels, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Medieval
ratings_count: 744162
places: England
series: Kingsbridge
publisher: Penguin Audiobooks