书名：The Pillars of the Earth 圣殿春秋

作者：Ken Follett肯·福莱特

出版社名称：Signet

出版时间：1990

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780451166890

商品尺寸：10.8 x 4.3 x 17.5 cm

包装：简装

页数：984 （以实物为准）

The Pillars of the Earth《圣殿春秋》是英国畅销小说作家肯·福莱特的畅销小说，自问世以来已被翻译成近30种语言，总销售量超过1400万本。这部以中世纪英格兰为背景的阴谋悬疑小说，以修建哥特式大教堂为经，爵位、王位争夺战为纬，描绘了一幅波澜壮阔的中世纪人物风情图，被誉为“史诗般的巨著”“大手笔超凡出众的成功之作”。根据小说改编的同名桌面游戏获火遍欧美。由StarZ电视台出品，“小雀斑”埃迪·雷德梅恩、伊恩·麦柯肖恩和马修·麦克费登主演的同名电视剧广受好评。 推荐理由： 1.《巨人的陨落》《世界的凛冬》《永恒的边缘》作者肯•福莱特开山之作； 2. StarZ八集史诗迷你剧《圣殿春秋》原著小说； 3. 英文原版，内容无删减，纸质护眼。 媒体评论：“以一个神秘的故事开始，并以其阴影笼罩全书，故事紧张，高潮迭起，悬念丛生，有行动，有诡计，也有暴力和激情，充满奢望、贪婪、勇气、奉献、复仇和爱情。”——《出版家周刊》 “一部史诗般的巨著，书中人物虽距今遥远却刻画得栩栩如生，令人信服。书中涉及人类所有的情感——爱恨，忠奸，希冀和欲望。请你一读。这部小说确能令你沉湎其中。是本出版年度中的一部奇书。”——《时尚》 “一部触手可及却错综复杂的史诗，生动逼真，史料翔实。小说中十二世纪英国的教堂建造者家庭仿佛是一块拱顶石，支撑着残酷的英国封建制度。”——《费加罗报》 Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then cameThe Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now,The Pillars of the Earth is available for the first time to a new audience of readers, in this attractive new trade paperback edition. In 12th-century England, the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral signals the dawn of a new age. This majestic creation will bond clergy and kings, knights and peasants together in a story of toil, faith, ambition and rivalry. A sweeping tale of the turbulent middle ages,The Pillars of the Earth is a masterpiece from one of the world's most popular authors. Praise forThe Pillars of the Earth “Enormous and brilliant... a great epic tale... crammed with characters unbelievably alive across the great gulf of centuries... touches all human emotion—love and hate, loyalty and treachery, hope and despair. See for yourself. This is truly a novel to get lost in.” — Cosmopolitan  “Wonderful... will hold you, fascinate you, surround you.” — Chicago Sun-Times “Follett is a master.” — The Washington Post “A towering tale... a ripping read.... There's murder, arson, treachery, torture, love, and lust.”  — The New York Daily News “Ken Follett takes a giant step.” — San Francisco Chronicle “With this book, Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner... a historical novel of gripping readability, authentic atmosphere, and memorable characterization. Beginning with a mystery that casts its shadow, the narrative is a seesaw of tension, suspense, impeccable pacing... action, intrigue, violence, passion, greed, bravery, dedication, revenge, and love. A love that entertains, instructs, and satisfies on a grand scale.” —Publishers Weekly “An extraordinary epic buttressed by suspense... a mystifying puzzle involving the execution of an innocent man... the erection of a magnificent cathedral... romance, rivalry, and spectacle. A monumental masterpiece... a towering triumph from a major talent.”  — Booklist

12世纪的英格兰，高耸的哥特式教堂的出现象征着一个新时代的开端。小说就以此为背景，以修建世界首座哥特式大教堂为经，以王位、爵位争夺战为纬，描绘了善恶交战引发的政教冲突、兄弟阋墙，讲述了一段有关勇气、奉献、梦想、爱情、贪婪和复仇的故事。本书被评论家誉为“史诗般的巨著”，真实的历史背景和细致入微的细节描写，让读者仿佛置身混沌的中世纪，与主人公们一起经历了那段惊心动魄的时光。 Selected by BBC viewers as one of Britain's best-loved books in the UK's biggest ever celebration of reading, the Big Read Set in the turbulent times of twelfth-century England when civil war, famine, religious strife and battles over royal succession tore lives and families apart,The Pillars of the Earth tells tells the story of the bulding of a magnificent cathedral. Against this richly imagined backdrop, filled with intrigue and treachery, Ken Follett draws the reader irresistibly into a wonderful epic of family drama, violent conflict and unswerving ambition. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, the dreams, labours and loves of his characters come vividly to life.The Pillars of the Earth is, without doubt, a masterpiece - and has proved to be one of the most popular book of our time.

肯·福莱特（Ken Follett，1949— ），当代大师级惊悚小说作家。1949年6月5日生于英国威尔士，在伦敦念完大学后曾任新闻记者，后专职写作。1978年以《针眼》一书荣获埃德加·爱伦·坡佳小说奖，蜚声国际，年仅27岁。之后又有《圣彼得堡来客》《与狮同眠》等多部小说畅销全世界，奠定了不可动摇的大师地位。 福莱特的作品一大特色是内容都有史实根据。历史上的真实人物与小说中的虚构角色，天衣无缝地融合在一起。其栩栩如生的人物刻画、高潮迭起的情节铺陈，精致准确的细节描绘，让读者在亦真亦幻之中，与历史时代共浮沉，和历史人物同悲喜，得到无比的乐趣。 福莱特还擅长描写爱情，用纤细动人的笔触，捕捉男女间微妙的感情变化，使他的惊悚小说同时也是一流的爱情小说。 Ken Follett is one of the world’s best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. Follett’s first bestseller wasEye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War. In 1989The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author’s most successful novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah’s Book Club pick. Its sequels,World Without End andA Column of Fire, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide. Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors.

In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house. The walls were already three feet high and rising fast. The two masons Tom had engaged were working steadily in the sunshine, their trowels going scrape, slap and then tap, tap while their laborer sweated under the weight of the big stone blocks. Tom’s son Alfred was mixing mortar, counting aloud as he scooped sand onto a board. There was also a carpenter, working at the bench beside Tom, carefully shaping a length of beech wood with an adz. Alfred was fourteen years old, and tall like Tom. Tom was a head higher than most men, and Alfred was only a couple of inches less, and still growing. They looked alike too: both had light-brown hair and greenish eyes with brown flecks. People said they were a handsome pair. The main difference between them was that Tom had a curly brown beard, whereas Alfred had only a fine blond fluff. The hair on Alfred’s head had been that color once, Tom remembered fondly. Now that Alfred was becoming a man, Tom wished he would take a more intelligent interest in his work, for he had a lot to learn if he was to be a mason like his father; but so far Alfred remained bored and baffled by the principles of building. When the house was finished it would be the most luxurious home for miles around. The ground floor would be a spacious undercroft, for storage, with a curved vault for a ceiling, so that it would not catch fire. The hall, where people actually lived, would be above, reached by an outside staircase, its height making it hard to attack and easy to defend. Against the hall wall there would be a chimney, to take away the smoke of the fire. This was a radical innovation: Tom had only ever seen one house with a chimney, but it had struck him as such a good idea that he was determined to copy it. At one end of the house, over the hall, there would be a small bedroom, for that was what earls’ daughters demanded nowadays—they were too fine to sleep in the hall with the men and the serving wenches and the hunting dogs. The kitchen would be a separate building, for every kitchen caught fire sooner or later, and there was nothing for it but to build them far away from everything else and put up with lukewarm food. Tom was making the doorway of the house. The doorposts would be rounded to look like columns—a touch of distinction for the noble newlyweds who were to live here. With his eye on the shaped wooden template he was using as a guide, Tom set his iron chisel obliquely against the stone and tapped it gently with the big wooden hammer. A small shower of fragments fell away from the surface, leaving the shape a little rounder. He did it again. Smooth enough for a cathedral. He had worked on a cathedral once—Exeter. At first he had treated it like any other job. He had been angry and resentful when the master builder had warned him that his work was not quite up to standard: he knew himself to be rather more careful than the average mason. But then he realized that the walls of a cathedral had to be not just good, but perfect. This was because the cathedral was for God, and also because the building was so big that the slightest lean in the walls, the merest variation from the absolutely true and level, could weaken the structure fatally. Tom’s resentment turned to fascination. The combination of a hugely ambitious building with merciless attention to the smallest detail opened Tom’s eyes to the wonder of his craft. He learned from the Exeter master about the importance of proportion, the symbolism of various numbers, and the almost magical formulas for working out the correct width of a wall or the angle of a step in a spiral staircase. Such things captivated him. He was surprised to learn that many masons found them incomprehensible.