Fall of Giants

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

出版者:Dutton Adult

作者:Ken Follett

页数:985

出版时间:2010-9-28

价格:USD 36.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780525951650

丛书系列:Century Trilogy

图书标签:历史小说英文原版小说Ken_Follett历史外国文学KenFollett英语

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.

读后感

微信公号：别离以前（bieliyiqian） 从小我就喜欢读大部头的故事书，沉迷进去之后，每每废寝忘食。 遇见金庸之后，这个爱好推向极致。我曾用一个通宵加两个白天看完了《倚天屠龙记》，后来又重读过数遍，虽然情节早已谙熟于心，每次却还是舍不得中途放下。 当一本小说开始吸引...  

Washington Post对Ken Follett (KF hereinafter)的评价是mixed。在褒扬其对历史细节和微妙动态的把握之余，这篇书评还毫不客气地揶揄了一番KF对人物情节刻画的粗鄙： "Unfortunately, these personal elements offer some of the most awkward, least convincing moments in th...  

蒸汽机的应用带来了人类生产力的前所未有发展，工业革命产生的巨额财富支撑起日不落帝国。英王乔治五世加冕让帝国一片欢腾，海晏河清的政局和欣欣向荣的国运犹如巨人的守护。大英帝国坚不可摧。1911年夏天，一切都遵循着英国贵族的预想有条不紊的朝着既定方向发展。肯·福莱特...  

用户评价

Feels like reading the story of the parents--they used to be young and center of the world.经典之作，宏大细腻，合情合理，打动人心。

和小琼一起读的小说

跟中文版一起间隔着读，真好

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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！