Oprah has selected Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth as the perfect gift to give a friend or loved one this Christmas for under $25, in her show "Oprah's Favorite Things 2007".

According to Oprah, "You will not be able to put it down," she says. "It's the perfect gift for under $25."

A spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known... of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect—a man divided in his soul...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother.

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