Pillars of the earth world without end6/26/2023 They said, "you know, you've had a lot of success with these thrillers, are you sure you want to write about building a church?". When I started talking about the idea, some of my friends were quite shocked. Before too long, it occurred to me to channel this enthusiasm into a novel. I would go to a town, like Lincoln or Winchester, check into a hotel and spend a couple of days looking around the cathedral and learning about it. I became a bit of a train spotter on the subject. I read a couple of books on architecture and developed an interest in cathedrals. When I started writing, back in the early Seventies, I found I had no vocabulary for describing buildings. It's overwhelmingly the book that readers talk to me about when I meet them in bookshops. It still sells about 100,000 copies a year in paperback in the US, it was number one in the UK and Italy and it was on the German best seller list for six years. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age. Against this backdrop, lives entwine: Tom, the master builder, Aliena, the noblewoman, Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge, Jack, the artist in stone and Ellen, the woman from the forest who casts a curse. In a time of civil war, famine and religious strife, there rises a magnificent Cathedral in Kingsbridge.
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