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The Pillars of the Earth: where to start reading
Adapts Kingsbridge by Ken Follett. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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1 seasons
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1 book
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from the books
After Miniseries (2010), in the books you are
at The Pillars of the Earth.
through the end of the novel.
The eight-episode miniseries adapts the whole novel across its run.
Start reading at The Pillars of the Earth (the novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Miniseries (2010) draws on this book. Read the full story:
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
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What the show changed here
- ChangedAges are shifted: Waleran is older and Remigius younger, while Alfred, Jack, Richard and Aliena are cast older than in the book.
- CutA number of book figures are dropped, including Thomas Becket, Henry of Blois and the monk Andrew Sacrist.
- InventedThe series invents Regan's incestuous fixation on her son William, which has no basis in the novel.
- ChangedThe show takes broad liberties with the real history of The Anarchy, reworking or inventing timelines.
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The Starz miniseries (2010, eight episodes) adapts Ken Follett's single novel The Pillars of the Earth, the first book in the Kingsbridge series.
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