A Study Guide for Ken Follett's "World Without End"
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World Without End
Ken Follett
2007
Introduction
Ken Follett's novel World Without End is the companion volume to his earlier book, The Pillars of the Earth, published in 1989. In Pillars, set in twelfth-century England, Follett told the story of the people who built a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge. World Without End is set two hundred years later in the same town, with the cathedral in place and with some of the same families present several generations later, as we can tell by surnames like Builder or Barber that, like the professions they designate, descend from father to son. World Without End is also a story about progress and its effects. Kingsbridge Cathedral, a towering achievement in its time turns out to be structurally unsound, and the current generation must find ways to rebuild and repair it based on better knowledge and the perspective of years.
Author Biography
Ken Follett was born June 5, 1949, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Martin D. Follett (a tax collector) and Lavinia C. (Evans) Follett. Follett and his family moved from Wales to London when the author was ten years old. During the years in London, Follett, who was bored in school, began playing guitar and learning songs popularized by Bob Dylan and the Beatles.
Follett was educated at University College, where he studied philosophy and received a bachelor of arts degree in 1970. As a student in the 1960s, he was involved in political activities, including protests against the Vietnam War and opposition to apartheid in South Africa.
After graduating from college, Follett worked as a journalist and pop music critic in Cardiff and London. He began writing fiction on the side and took a position at Everest Books in 1974 in order to learn more about the publishing industry. Although he had already published several novels (including several murder mysteries under the pseudonyms Symon Myles, Piers Roper, and Bernard L. Ross), his first major success was a spy novel, Eye of the Needle, published in 1978, which won that year's Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. It was made into a popular movie in 1981.
Follett went on to write numerous other thrillers, with bestsellers including Triple (1979), which dealt with the Arab-Israeli conflict, The Key to Rebecca (1980), based on the adventures of a Germanspy, and The Man from St. Petersburg (1982), a World War II spy novel in which the Russians form an alliance with the English against Germany.
The Pillars of the Earth, published in 1989, represented a major change for Follett—from espionage to historic romance. This highly successful novel, set in the Middle Ages and detailing the construction of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, later became an Oprah Book Club selection. Booklist praised the novel as a towering triumph of romance, rivalry, and spectacle from a major talent.
World Without End, published in 2007, takes up this story two hundred