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Cathedral of the Sea: A Novel by Ildefonso Falcones; Nick Caistor is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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From Publishers Weekly Medieval Spain's caste system can't keep a good man down in this absorbing epic, a Spanish-language bestseller. Arnau Estanyol, son of a fugitive peasant, starts out in 14th-century Barcelona as a lowly porter who carries stone blocks to a cathedral construction site and ends up a rich moneylender who saves the city from pillaging and frees the serfs of a barony he acquires by marriage. Alas, his dizzying social assent and defiance of the feudal order provoke enraged aristocrats—his status-obsessed wife included—into siccing the Inquisition on him. Arnau is a kindhearted, somewhat passive figure who combines piety, industry and cosmopolitanism to challenge a corrupt, dogmatic church and a parasitic nobility. The plot features thwarted romance, war, plague, immolations and self-immolations, set in a Machiavellian world ruled by privilege, cronyism and brute force. The melodrama is sometimes laid on thick, but Falcones's rich portrait of medieval society is fascinating. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review “Believable and enthralling...so beautifully structured that the last sixty pages de
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ildefonso Falcones; Nick Caistor
- Publisher
- NAL
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (1,409 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14