The Evening and the Morning: The Prequel to The Pillars of the Earth, A Kingsbridge Novel

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When I read that this book was a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth trilogy I thought I would pick it up as a start to the other three. Shortly after I started, one of the first things that caught my attention was the extent to which everything was described, even in conversations between characters.

If you *have* read 'Pillars of the Earth', however, 'The Evening and the Morning' stands as an excellent prequel. I felt like CofF spun off in an entirely new direction, focusing on the wider political and religious struggles of the world and often forgetting Kingsbridge and its citizens.Plot twists and historical goings-on fuel a stellar story that seeks to lay the foundational groundwork for what is to come, a sensational trilogy about a cathedral and the town that develops around it. I haven’t read the third installment , A Column of Fire , but I assume it follows the same pattern: in pre-industrial England, characters from different classes—clergy, nobles, and peasants—go about their daily lives in ways that bring them into union and conflict. My review of the second book, World Without End , included this summary: “in terms of archetypes, there’s a fair bit of overlap with the first book—the leads include a clever builder, a brutish fighter, and an enterprising woman who chafes against conventional wisdom. This epic tale of ambition and rivalry is the prequel to Ken Follett's international bestseller The Pillars of the Earth, and the fourth book in his historical fiction series. World Without End, the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, proved equally popular when it was published in 2007.

However Ken Follett really knows how to tell a story, wonderful sense of time and place and characters that are likeable and despicable but always memorable. thanks to Follett's attention to detail, I am now extremely confident on how to build a ferry barge and make counterfeit coins! Ragna is from noble blood and finds herself in the community after she is married to one of the rich men. The sexual violence against young girls and women made for uncomfortable reading and I think he could have toned it down a little and still would have got his point across without being so coarse. The story blends many characters both sinister and well intentioned into the village that would one day be Knightsbridge.Tikrai maniau, kad bus sunku įsiskaityt, kad ta galybė veikėjų makaluosis ir jų vardai bus sunkiai įsimenami, kad iš tų 734 puslapių perskaičius drąsiai sakysiu, jog pusę išmesčiau. The length was somewhat prohibitive for me as I am a slow reader, but I chose a time when I could give it the hours it required, and I’m not sorry I did. After Wynstan escapes punishment, Aldred is sent away from Shiring to run the minster at Dreng's Ferry. This book is the prequel to The Pillars of the Earth (which happens to be in my top 10 favorite books of all time).

Bogran of the Washington Independent described The Evening and the Morning as "more of the same, with variation" relative to Follett's other books set in Kingsbridge.Mas como o Amor é a luz das Trevas, o romance também anda por lá aos tropeções, brilhando com algum custo, lá no meio de tanta treva! Some of these cookies are essential to make our site work and others help to give us insight into how the site is being used. England circa 1000 was a fractious place, where Christianity's hold was nominal at best in some places, where priests could still have wives, where polygamy and slavery were not unusual, where women could hold property in their own names. While there is a great deal of backstory, the essence of the story brings out some masterful character development, first as independent characters, but slowly inching each together until the final chapter, as fans of Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth can see a recognisable location. The king tells Ragna that he will not force her to marry Wigelm, but he will not take the boy away from Wigelm either.

I loved these two characters and happily became wrapped up in their lives as they navigated treacherous times and great difficulties. Or to put it another way, the central character of the Kingsbridge series is Kingsbridge, Follett’s fictional English town. Whether this is your first foray into the Kingsbridge series or you're a diehard fan, then you won't be disappointed.This isn't a book for the faint hearted as it depicts many acts of sexual violence, rape, brutality and torture and I have to admit I found it hard going in places.