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World Without End (Audio CD, Unabridged)
World Without End - Audio CD, Unabridged
Author: Ken Follett, John Lee (Narrator)
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ISBN-13: 9780143142355
ISBN-10: 0143142356
Publication Date: 10/9/2007
Pages: 1
Edition: Unabridged
Rating:
  • Currently 4.6/5 Stars.
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4.6 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Book Type: Audio CD
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reviewed World Without End (Audio CD, Unabridged) on + 121 more book reviews
This review is taken from Amazon.com and is their review of the book. It is exactly what I would say if I was writing the review, except it says it about 100 times better so:

"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."
grammyteach avatar reviewed World Without End (Audio CD, Unabridged) on + 192 more book reviews
I really enjoyed listening to this audio book. The narrator does an amazing job with all the character voices and different period accents.
This story continues (many years later) the theme of follett's "Pillars of the Earth", and entrances the listener.