World Without End, Ken Follett
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World Without End

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: Richard E. Grant

Abridged: 14 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/09/2007


Synopsis

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.

Author Bio

Ken Follett, a Welsh novelist has written important bodies of work, such as: Eye of the Needle, The Key to Rebecca, Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Whiteout, The Century Trilogy. His genre includes thrillers and historical fiction. As a youth he was never allowed to watch television or movies, so out of boredom, he developed a keen interest in reading.

Follett had various jobs on his pathway to being a novelist. He was a general assignment reporter for the Evening News in London. He found that work to be very unchallenging, so he took a position as managing director of Everest Books and began writing fiction as an evening hobby. With the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978 he became not only internationally known, but also wealthy. Follett’s next project is a third book in his Kingsbridge series. The first two were The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, and is to be released in 2017.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Dutch on 2008-01-09 18:02:27

Thirty-six disks?!? This 14th century soap opera just goes on and on and on. When I finally finished listening to this excellently read audio book I actually felt the need to go to church just to prove to myself that there are actually nice people out there. If you hate humanity as much as Mr. Follett apparently does, youll thoroughly enjoy all 36 CDs.

AudiobooksNow review by C on 2009-06-09 17:17:03

I very much enjoyed Pilgram's of the Earth and was looking forward to another of that caliber--unfortanately it did not happen. None of the characters really touched me like they did in Pilgrims. It was long though...very long.