The author of this book is the famous British thriller Ken Follett. In 1978, he became famous at home and abroad for his spy suspense novel "The Eye of the Needle", which described the Normandy landings in World War II. Later, at the age of twenty-seven, he began to write "Temple of Spring and Autumn". "This historical novel was written around the medieval church. It took thirteen years to collect information, conceive and create, and also wrote other thrillers in the process of writing the book. The construction craftsman Tom dragged his son and daughter to undertake the construction of the King's Bridge Cathedral in England to support the family. At the same time, his family joined the cathedral's vice-bishop Philip, the earl's children, and the vicious William Hamley, Bishop Warren There were constant conflicts, contradictions, and entanglements between Erlen and the king. Among them, the hierarchy is obvious. The Tom family represents the first floor of the commoners, while the bishops are the middle class, and the earls, kings and others are the spires of the pyramid. The author's viewpoints are well-balanced, which not only allows readers to feel the helplessness of people at the bottom represented by Tom, but also allows us to see the intrigue in the middle and high-level fields. The history of revenge with perseverance and perseverance in order to realize his father's wishes during his lifetime is even more vivid and thrilling. Among them, the higher-ranking characters all care about titles, status, and power, while the lower-ranking people often deal with food and money. In that era of strict hierarchies, the rulers' territorial disputes led to the misery of the people, and the insidious villains fell on both sides of the wall, while monks such as Philip who dedicated their lives to God could only pray for the favor of the god of fate. The old church was destroyed by fire, and the new church symbolized new hope and his outstanding performance as a leader. Of course, although Tom issued an architectural statement "because it is beautiful", there is also a private fight for personal honor. read. The church encountered various twists and turns during the construction process, first of all, its financial resources. When Philip took over the King Bridge Abbey, it was almost a mess, but he was good at management and brainstorming. Fight for the right of stone mining and wholesale of agricultural and sideline products. However, William colluded with Bishop Warren and repeatedly cut off his financial resources. The only way was to snatch the rights stipulated by the king. It was a shameless method combining violence and conspiracy. Secondly, there is the problem of construction technology. The succession of Tom's eldest son changed the original intention of the church building, causing the church to collapse when the roof was dropped, and then the problems of time, energy and financial resources came up again. However, in the ups and downs of the fate of the cathedral and a group of people, the author shows the market transactions mainly based on agriculture and animal husbandry at that time. Set up a trading market to get its tax amount. When Queen Maud seized power, she proposed to pay an astonishingly expensive market start-up fee. In this way, three distinct figures are strung together, with Queen Maud at the top and Philip Deputy in the middle. Long, and at the bottom is Alena. It is conceivable that the social and economic pyramid is from the bottom up, and the economic source of the supreme ruler comes directly from the productive forces. This will inevitably lead to disputes over rights and exploitation of interests. The people will create wealth, but they will be trampled under the feet of the exploiters. There is no lack of a clear view of good and evil in the book, and even the end of the confrontation between the characters is often prompted by losing or winning. The conflicts and contradictions are handled naked and bluntly. Of course, the author does not just want to use violence and blood to arouse the disgusting feelings of the readers. For the entertainment of the readers, he inserts love paragraphs. In addition to revealing the motives and psychological world of the characters, He also endowed it with physical entertainment, and sometimes people even mistakenly thought it was the author's own entertainment. When he was tired of writing, he changed his pen to create a different atmosphere. Of course, he gained another group of enthusiastic readers.
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