The armour of light wer. angielska

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The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters. Revolution is in the air1792.

A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France s neighbours are on high alert. Kingsbridge is on the edgeUnprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingbridge s prosperous cloth mills a misery.

Rampant modernization and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs obsolete and tearing families apart. Tyranny is on the horizonNow, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people - including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal s inventive and headstrong son - will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression.

Taking the reader straight into the heart of history with the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, The Armour of Light is master storyteller Ken Follett s most ambitious novel to date. Follett s storytelling skills make their adventures riveting - The Times An effortlessly engaging and entertaining read - Daily Mail Bold in scale and meticulously researched - The Sunday Times The plague scenes are expertly handled.

Where Follett excels is in telling a yarn - IndependentMore than 175 million copies sold worldwide. Published in over eighty territories and thirty-seven languages. The international no.1 bestselling phenomenon returns.