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Water. Earth. Fire. Air. (SCPLD)
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Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance.
2) Cathedral
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"At the center of this story is the Cathedral. Its design and construction in the 13th and 14th centuries in the Rhineland town of Hagenburg unites a vast array of unforgettable characters whose fortunes are inseparable from the shifting political factions and economic interests vying for supremacy. From the bishop to his treasurer to local merchants and lowly stonecutters, everyone, even the town's Jewish denizens, is implicated and affected by the...
3) The spire
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"Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire. His master builder fearfully advises against it, for the old cathedral was miraculously built without foundations. But Jocelin is obsessed with fashioning his prayer in stone. As his halo of hair grows wilder and his dark angel darker, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, watched over by the gargoyles - until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath...
4) Filary ziemi
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Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.
7) Katedra
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Pierwsza połowa XIII wieku. W Hagenburgu trwa wielka przebudowa katedry. W cieniu monumentalnej budowli tętni życie. Wszyscy, od biskupiego skarbnika, przez miejskich kupców, utalentowanych mistrzów kamieniarskich, po miejscową społeczność żydowską, pozostają pod jej przemożnym wpływem wykraczającym poza kwestie duchowe i artystyczne. Zaskakujące koleje losów skarbnika Eugeniusa von Zaberna, uparcie spełniających marzenia braci...
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