![]() Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of the Huguenots in France the often-bloody struggle between Catholics and Protestants for primacy on the island.bitter rivalry between Elizabeth and her half-sister, Mary Queen of Scots.The defining events of the eraĪgain, as in the previous novels, Follett builds his tale in A Column of Fire around the defining events of the era: Each is peopled with a huge cast of characters, rich and poor, powerful and helpless, giving a richly nuanced picture of life in England over the centuries. ![]() Together, these three books weigh in at a total of 2,965 pages. The first two volumes of the Kingsbridge saga have sold nearly eighty million copies worldwide. ![]() (In 2020, Follett published a prequel, The Evening and the Morning.) A Column of Fire continues the story through the sixteenth century, spanning the years 1558 to 1606, when Queen Elizabeth I ruled England. ![]() This first novel was followed in 2007 by World Without End, which picks up the Kingsbridge saga two centuries later, in the years just before, during, and after the Black Death. The Pillars of the Earth, published in 1989, relates the story of the Kingsbridge Cathedral and the talented men who began its construction in the twelfth century. A Column of Fire is the fourth volume in Ken Follett‘s sprawling series of historical novels illuminating the history of England. ![]()
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