Follett, Ken [The Kingsbridge Series] ePub-Dual-ENG-FR

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Follett, Ken [The Kingsbridge Series] ePub-Dual-ENG-FR
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The United States edition is published by Dutton/Penguin
The Pillars of the Earth - US

In a time of civil war, famine and religious strife, there rises a magnificent Cathedral in Kingsbridge. 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. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.
Ken’s view

This is my most popular book. 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. It’s overwhelmingly the book that readers talk to me about when I meet them in bookshops. It’s becoming a cult.

When I started writing, back in the early Seventies, I found I had no vocabulary for describing buildings. I read a couple of books on architecture and developed an interest in cathedrals. I became a bit of a 'train spotter' on the subject. 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. Before too long, it occurred to me to channel this enthusiasm into a novel.

When I started talking about the idea, some of my friends were quite shocked. 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?”.

However, those of my friends who are writers saw immediately how the building of the church would be the spine of the story and the focus for the lives of all the characters. I knew it had to be a long book. It took at least thirty years to build a cathedral and most took longer because they would run out of money, or be attacked or invaded. So the story covers the entire lives of the main characters.

Writing Pillars of the Earth was exhausting. It is much more difficult to write one book of 400,000 words than three or four shorter books because you have to keep making up more and more stuff about the same people. Pillars of the Earth took me three years and three months and towards the end I was working Saturdays and Sundays because I thought I was never going to get it finished.

My publishers were a little nervous about such a very unlikely subject but paradoxically, it is my most popular book. It’s also the book I’m most proud of. It recreates, quite vividly, the entire life of the village and the people who live there. You feel you know the place and the people as intimately as if you yourself were living there in the middle ages.
Kindle Edition, 733 pages
Published November 14th 2007 by Signet (first published October 1st 1989)
Original Title : The Pillars of the Earth
mobi-asin : B000UZPI2U
Edition Language : English
Series : Kingsbridge #1
Characters : Thomas Becket, Henry II of England, Tom Builder, Prior Philip, Aliena, Jack Jackson, Stephen of England, Empress Matilda, William Hamleigh, Ellen, Richard of Kingsbridge, Alfred Builder, Waleran Bigod, Lord Percy Hamleigh, Lady Regan Hamleigh, Remigius...
setting : England
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The French edition, Les Piliers de la terre, is published by Robert Laffont
LES PILIERS DE LA TERRE
Ken FOLLETT
XIIe siècle. L'Angleterre est déchirée par la guerre civile et affaiblie par la famine et une épouvantable crise religieuse. À Kingsbridge, la construction de la plus grande cathédrale du monde suscite rivalités, violences et luttes de pouvoir. Les destins de Philip, le prieur, Jack, le bâtisseur ou la jeune aristocrate Aliena s'entremêlent dans cette superbe épopée romanesque ou l'amour et la haine sont omniprésents.
Une fresque monumentale par le plus grand bâtisseur de romans historiques de notre époque.

À propos de l'auteur

Ken Follett est né au pays de Galles en 1949. Il est l'un des plus grands auteurs de best-sellers et de thrillers d'espionnage (L'Arme à l'œil, Le Troisième Jumeau, Le Réseau Corneille?), mais c'est avec ses romans historiques Les Piliers de la terre, Un monde sans fin et Une colonne de feu qu'il a connu ses plus grands succès, vendus en dizaines de millions d'exemplaires à travers le monde. Plusieurs de ses œuvres ont été adaptées au cinéma et à la télévision. Il vit à Stevenage, en Angleterre.
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World Without End - US
World Without End - US

On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed.

As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day.

World Without End is the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. However, it doesn’t matter which you read first. The second book is set in the same town, Kingsbridge, but takes place two hundred years later, and features the descendants of the original characters.
Kindle Edition, Reprint Edition, 1088 pages
Published October 7th 2007 by Signet (first published October 4th 2007)
Original Title : World Without End
mobi-asin : B000W93CHC
Edition Language : English
Series : Kingsbridge #2
Characters : Caris, Merthin, Gwenda, Godwyn, Ralph
setting : Kingsbridge, England (United Kingdom)
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The French edition, Un monde sans fin, is published by Robert Laffont.
UN MONDE SANS FIN
Ken FOLLETT
Ken Follett a conquis le monde avec Les Piliers de la terre, monumentale saga qui prenait place dans l'Angleterre du XIIe siècle...
... Deux siècles plus tard, la ville de Kingsbridge et sa cathédrale sont au coeur d'une nouvelle grande fresque épique.
1327. Quatre enfants sont les témoins d'une poursuite meurtrière dans les bois : un chevalier tue deux soldats au service de la reine, avant d'enfouir dans le sol une lettre mystérieuse, dont le secret pourrait mettre en danger la couronne d'Angleterre. Ce jour lie à jamais leurs sorts...
L'architecte de génie, la voleuse éprise de liberté, la femme idéaliste, le moine dévoré par l'ambition... Mû par la foi, l'amour et la haine, le goût du pouvoir ou la soif de vengeance, chacun devra se battre pour accomplir sa destinée dans un monde en pleine mutation – secoué par les guerres, terrassé par les famines, et ravagé par la Peste noire.
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A Column of Fire - US
A Column of Fire
Synopsis

The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire.

Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed.

The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in turmoil as high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty and love, and Ned soon finds himself on the opposite side from the girl he longs to marry, Margery Fitzgerald.

Then Elizabeth Tudor becomes queen and all of Europe turns against England. The shrewd, determined young monarch sets up the country’s first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebellions and invasion plans.

Elizabeth knows that alluring, headstrong Mary Queen of Scots lies in wait in Paris. Part of a brutally ambitious French family, Mary has been proclaimed the rightful ruler of England, with her own supporters scheming to get rid of the new queen.

Over a turbulent half-century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed, as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva. With Elizabeth clinging precariously to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of resourceful spies and courageous secret agents, it becomes clear that the real enemies – then as now – are not the rival religions.

The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else – no matter the cost.

Hardcover, 751 pages
Expected publication: September 19th 2017 by Macmillan (first published September 12th 2017)
Original Title : A Column of Fire
ISBN : 1447278739 (ISBN13: 9781447278733)
Edition Language : English
URL : https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/ken-follett/a-column-of-fire
Series : Kingsbridge #3
setting : Kingsbridge, England, 1558 (United Kingdom)
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United Kingdom – Thursday 21st September 2017

France and French Canada (Une Colonne de Feu) – Thursday 14th September 2017


UNE COLONNE DE FEU
Ken FOLLETT
Traduit par Cécile ARNAUD, Jean-Daniel BRÈQUE, Nathalie GOUYÉ-GUILBERT, Odile DEMANGE, Dominique HAAS

Après Les Piliers de la Terre et Un monde sans fin, Ken Follett renoue avec la magnifique fresque de Kingsbridge, qui a captivé des millions de lecteurs dans le monde entier.
Noël 1558, le jeune Ned Willard rentre à Kingsbridge : le monde qu'il connaissait va changer à tout jamais... Les pierres patinées de la cathédrale dominent une ville déchirée par la haine religieuse et Ned se retrouve dans le camp adverse de celle qu'il voulait épouser, Margery Fitzgerald.
L'accession d'Élisabeth Ire au trône met le feu à toute l'Europe. Les complots pour destituer la jeune souveraine se multiplient, notamment en France ou la séduisante Marie Stuart – considérée comme l'héritière légitime du royaume anglais et issue de la redoutable famille française de Guise – attend son heure. Pour déjouer ces machinations, Élisabeth constitue les premiers services secrets du pays et Ned devient l'un des espions de la reine. À Paris, il fait la connaissance de la libraire protestante Sylvie Palot dont le courage ne le laisse pas indifférent...
Dans ce demi-siècle agité par le fanatisme qui répand la violence depuis Séville jusqu'à Genève, les pires ennemis ne sont cependant pas les religions rivales. La véritable bataille oppose les adeptes de la tolérance aux tyrans décidés à imposer leurs idées à tous les autres – à n'importe quel prix.
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Infos sur l'upload
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Kingsbridge Series
Author : Ken Follet
kingsbridge series ENG/[Kingsbridge #1] - The Pillars of the Earth - Follett, Ken.epub (965.06 ko)
kingsbridge series ENG/[Kingsbridge #2] - World Without End - Follett, Ken.epub (1.32 Mo)
kingsbridge series ENG/[Kingsbridge #3] - A Column of Fire - Follett, Ken.epub (2.65 Mo)
Edition Language : English
EPUB
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Série « Les Piliers de la Terre »
Auteur : Ken Follet
kingsbridge series FR/colonne de feu, Une - Follett, Ken.epub (859.52 ko)
kingsbridge series FR/Monde Sans Fin, Un - Follett, Ken.epub (1.37 Mo)
kingsbridge series FR/Piliers de la Terre, Les - Follett, Ken.epub (1.33 Mo)
Langue : French
Format : ePub
Nb de fichiers : 18 (6 x 1 opf x 1 jpg x 1 ePub)
Taille du post : 9.13 Mo
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