World Without EndBy: Ken Follett Series: Kingsbridge #1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. World Without End is its equally irresistible sequelset two hundred years after The Pillars of the Earth and three hundred years after the Kingsbridge prequel, The