出版社: Dutton Adult
出版年: 2010-9-28
页数: 985
定价: USD 36.00
装帧: Hardcover
丛书: Century Trilogy
ISBN: 9780525951650
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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 terrifica...
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.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
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
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12 有用 细玉流光 2014-07-30 16:45:13
故事线推进得好精妙,可惜人物还是一贯扁平。
0 有用 Nicolas 2020-04-27 09:12:18
audible book
1 有用 狐梨酱 2017-07-11 21:16:16
太精彩了!Will never look at WWI, Russia's revolution, or women's suffrage in the same way ever again。将近1000页都是看小说学历史的典范。后两本在欧洲一边旅行一边读就太开心了!
4 有用 二顺 2016-11-07 03:27:02
比较容易flip through
13 有用 木马 2013-01-30 14:11:10
KF的小说虽然文学性很低,但是对历史的微妙动态的把握很精彩。KF每一部小说都是八九百页,但是我从来没有一分钟觉得boring过。故事的结尾,一战渐渐落幕,除了政治人物,凯恩斯和罗素也客串登台。The world is made new.
0 有用 . 2023-12-17 19:08:17 浙江
It is hard for me to understand it. That background and history are difficult. This book took me almost a month!
0 有用 Sc 2023-09-05 23:59:07 江苏
好平的语言,平到本该很精彩的一个故事让我每翻一页都毫无波澜。里面的爱情线看得好不爽,很直男意淫😇。不过不失为睡前读物,够长够简单够直白😇感谢这本事让我明白,用plain english写好一个故事原来不是什么容易的事。读到25%实在不想读下去,有种我也能写英文小说的错觉
0 有用 神秘数字53 2023-08-13 12:03:48 上海
读完六百页狄更斯之后读本没羞没臊的流行小说,这也太治愈了吧。文笔对于通俗小说而言很不错,至少比大仲马好。plot twist接二连三。
0 有用 Wattskemov 2023-03-29 00:53:53 广东
很流畅
0 有用 卖拐 2022-08-25 10:59:20 上海
读的第一本英文书。感觉一般,人物真的很单薄