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The Pillars of the Earth has the foundation of its narrative solidly set: the characters’ greatest conflicts are outlined at the beginning, serving as solid columns for the structure that will organize the most important events of the story, with actions always generating consequences, making the scale of the events gradually increase until the climatic end.
The novel’s various plots all gravitate around the construction of a cathedral in Kingsbridge, England, during the 12th century, focusing on some of the figures crucial to the venture. It has a simple structure: the Kingsbridge cathedral begins to be built, the villains draw up a plan to bring it down or [...]