This overview of English history, full of characters to love and hate, begins with the earliest settling of the Salisbury Plain by primitive hunters and farmers. As civilization develops and flourishes, so the story, evolving into a saga of five families who shape and are shaped by the events of this bit of the British historical story.
The creation of Stonehenge will invade your imagination. Christianity comes and the Salisbury Cathedral is a result. Lives and loves of men and women with their triumphs and disappointments evolve against the parade of ages -- kings and their wars and kingdoms, plagues, revolutions, until we get to Queen Victoria and an age that developed faster than ever.
In Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd creates a masterpiece of breathtaking scope --a brilliantly conceived and superbly written epic novel that traces the turbulent story of the entire course of English history from its beginnings in the Ice Age almost 10,000 years ago to the present day, a story that until now has never been told. Sarum is a meticulously researched, authoritative account of the entire sweep of English civilization.
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