Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy - Softcover

Follett, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451232585 ISBN 13: 9780451232588

Publisher: Penguin Books (MM), 1900

Synopsis

A thirteenyearold Welsh boy enters a mans world in the mining pitsAn American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilsons White HouseA housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy

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Review

‘An epic saga on a grand scale. Spiked with romance and intrigue . . . This involving historical saga is the perfect read for long winter evenings’ Choice

‘Like Follett’s classic novel, Pillars of the Earth, it quickly becomes a guilty pleasure’ Daily Telegraph

‘Perhaps no British author better illustrates the forces at work in international publishing than can give birth to, and then grow, a global brand . . . If such books deliver the simple pleasures of escape, maybe they hold up a distant mirror to their readers too’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent

‘An extraordinary achievement’ A.N. Wilson, Reader’s Digest

‘This is hi-octane storytelling all the more powerful because the story it tells is, mostly, true. Follett’s command of the vast forces he unleashes is as impressive as the battle strategies of his generals, and in many cases more so . . . overall Follett is masterly in conveying so much drama and historical information so vividly’ Scotsman

‘Follett has managed to write an accessible and fascinating page turner that leaves the reader wanting more, at the same time as staying true to history’ Sunday Business Post

‘He’s pulled it off again with Fall of Giants: it’s classic Follett with the brewing cataclysm of war given a human angle’ Sunday Express

‘Few works set out with such a grand concept as Ken Follett’s new Century trilogy, but part one suggests that the series will be one of the literary masterpieces of our time . . . while grand events and themes are at the core of the novel, it is the richness of the characters and the intertwining of their often disparate stories that steal the show’ Sunday Times

‘The master storyteller Ken Follett knits together British, American, German and Russian points of view from the start to the end of the First World War into a fascinating and remarkably fertile tapestry of society and politics’ The Times

Book Description

An epic of love, hatred, war and revolution

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books (MM)
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0451232585
• ISBN 13: 9780451232588
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 944