![]() ![]() ![]() Their names are Merthin, Caris, Gwenda, and Ralph. They are the descendants of the protagonists of “The Pillars of the Earth”, but they all come from different backgrounds. Follett explores how the people of Kingsbridge survived during this tumultuous time in his second book of the Kingsbridge series, “World Without End”.įollett begins his book with his main characters as children in the church that he wrote about in the first book, Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is also two centuries after the events of Ken Follett’s massively popular book, “The Pillars of the Earth”. This was a time of despair, but it was also a time where we see a shift from old traditions of the church and the state. Europe during the 14th century was full of danger, the start of a conflict that would be known as the Hundred Years’ War, and the massively destructive illness that we know today as either “the Black Death” or “the Black Plague”. ![]()
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