The armor of light
Follett, Ken2023
Large Print
Revolution is in the air 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France’s neighbours are on high alert. Kingsbridge is on the edge Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingbridge’s prosperous cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernisation and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs obsolete and tearing families apart. Tyranny is on the horizon. Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people – including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal’s inventive and headstrong son – will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression.The spinning jenny, a device that reduced the amount of work needed to produce cloth, was patented in 1770 and a new era of industry changed lives everywhere. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in awork accident; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth, all the while war cries are heard form France, as Napolean sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world. As institutions are challenged and toppled, our characters are left to reckon with a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war.Revolution is in the air 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France's neighbours are on high alert. Kingsbridge is on the edge Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingbridge's prosperous cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernisation and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs obsolete and tearing families apart. Tyranny is on the horizon. Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people - including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal's inventive and headstrong son - will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression.
Main title:
The armor of light / Ken Follett.
Author:
Follett, Ken, authorFollett, Ken
Work:
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.©2023
Collation:
500 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Series title:
Kingsbridge series ; 4.
Variant title:
Armour of light
ISBN:
9798885790215
Dewey class:
FOLLF
Language:
English
Added title:
Subject:
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821Working class -- Great Britain -- FictionLabor unions -- FictionNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- FictionPlague -- England -- FictionFamilies -- FictionIndustrial revolution -- England -- FictionRevolutions -- FictionEngland -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- FictionGreat Britain -- History -- 1789-1820 -- FictionFrance -- History -- 1789-1815 -- FictionGreat Britain -- History -- 1714-1837 -- FictionFrance -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- FictionLarge print booksLarge type booksHistorical fiction
BRN:
1956754