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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, the ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
Description
The ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through four decades during which social and political upheaval and the internal politics of the church affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
3) Hawksmoor
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Crime and Detective. Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor was first published in 1985. Alternating between the eighteenth century, when Nicholas Dyer,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
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