{"id":25,"date":"2010-06-30T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T10:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2013-07-20T20:15:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T18:15:42","slug":"book-world-without-end-ken-follet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"World Without End – Ken Follet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"World<\/a>Everyone, who is interested in the historical life of the 14th century and read Ken Follet\u2019s book \u201cThe pillars of the earth\u201d will enjoy Ken Follet\u2019s latest book. <\/p>\n

It tells the story of one generation during the mid of the 14th centuries following some characters from their childhood until the evening of their lives.<\/p>\n

Merthin and Ralph \u2013 brothers, who cannot be more different. The one (Merthin) a great builder, who ran village of Kingsbridge as an alderman. Ralph \u2013 a ruthless soldier making his career through the ranks becoming an Earl despite of murder and raping.<\/p>\n

Caris \u2013 a girl from a rich family with her own free mind, which brought her more than once in trouble during her life. In love with Merthin, but urged to live as a nun in a cloister, where she began her second career as a healer.<\/p>\n

Gwenda \u2013 grown up as the opposite of Caris (nevertheless her friend) in a pour laborer family, sold by her own father, learned early enough to fight for herself and lived her hard life at the fields with her husband Wulfric<\/p>\n

These four people were bound together since the age of 10, when the witnessed a assassin in the forests.<\/p>\n

Beside telling the different stories of the four characters in great lively pictures, Ken Follet created a great plot, from which we can still learn in today\u2019s business life. Only the tools and weapons have developed \u2013 interestingly enough the behaviors and politics are all the same today.<\/p>\n

I guess that\u2019s where we can (should) learn from history\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone, who is interested in the historical life of the 14th century and read Ken Follet\u2019s book \u201cThe pillars of the earth\u201d will enjoy Ken Follet\u2019s latest book. It tells the story of one generation during the mid of the 14th centuries following some characters from their childhood until the evening of their lives. Merthin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}