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发表于2024-05-04
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Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself."
-The Denver Post on World Without End
Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" ( The Washington Post ) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" ( St. Louis Post- Dispatch )
Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a 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 Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London...
These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.
In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.
肯·福莱特 Ken Follett (1949 -),现象级畅销小说大师。1978年出版了处女作《风暴岛》,并于次年获得爱伦坡奖,声名鹊起,专职写作。2010年,荣登全球作家富豪榜上第5名。2013年,获得爱伦坡终身大师奖。他的小说出版前,都会请历史学家审读书稿,绝不容许出现任何史实错误。有出版人曾指出,肯·福莱特 “没有一个饱受折磨的灵魂”,他愉快地承认了,“大家都在写内心的痛苦,可我总是觉得很开心”。他说:“很多作家只写能取悦他们自己的东西,并模模糊糊地希望这也能取悦别人。但我每写一页都在清醒地思考:读者会怎么想?读者觉得这真的会发生吗?读者关心这些吗?读者想要知道接下来会发生什么吗?我敬佩那些用文字和新奇结构进行文学实验的作家,但我从不这么玩。”
作者官方网站:www.ken-follett.com
一开始很不错。到一战了,和战事一样,拖得太长,读到生厌。还是没有the pillars of the earth好。
评分我觉得我好久没有这么酣畅淋漓的读本中规中矩的小说了,特别怀念中学的时候可以在床头捧着本书读到3、4点的劲头。这大概是除了红楼梦之外读的最厚的一本书了。一直对一战的历史特别模糊,只知道是欧洲大乱炖,没有想到居然是这么可笑的一个trigger。五个家族错综复杂的交错的人生让人唏嘘不已。我只希望第二本书里能天降正义Lev,看得我简直生气!
评分好看到放不下来,还可以顺便学习历史。对女性人物的刻画尤其精彩。哪位大大去把改编权买下来吧,这题材和构思翻拍成迷你剧再合适不过了。
评分能吸引人读下去,也算一个优点吧。
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Fall of Giants pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024