Author
Ken Follett
We've read and reviewed Ken Follett's historical fiction and classics book The Pillars of the Earth on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth builds an entire twelfth-century world around the construction of a single cathedral, and somehow makes laying stone the most gripping thing imaginable. It's a massive, propulsive medieval epic of ambition, faith, war, and revenge that earns every one of its thousand pages.