![]() Donaldson has created a landmark of imaginative literature. With irresistible narrative sweep, full of scenic grandeur, fabulous myth, and characters as memorable and fascinating as any in fantasy fiction, Stephen R. He has been defeated in the past by the Council of Lords, servants of the Land and protectors of its arcane lore but now the power of the Council has been reduced, and Lord Foul has found his perfect, unwitting tool – Thomas Covenant, the man who thinks the Land is a dream who cannot accept its life-restoring powers for fear of confronting the terrible dilemma of his own existence Covenant, the Unbeliever. For the Land has an immortal enemy – Lord Foul the Despiser – whose unceasing intent is to lay it waste. In this state of moral isolation, he is suddenly shunted to a mysterious world known simply as "the Land" – a place of magical potency, acutely beautiful wherever it has recovered from the ravages of age-old, recurring wars. ![]() Here we meet Thomas Covenant, a man burdened with a terrible stigma that has deprived him of wife, friends, almost all human contact, perhaps even his sanity. ![]() World Fantasy Award nominee 1978, Locus Award nominee 1978.Ī wondrous world of magical adventure, as richly conceived and deeply engrossing as has ever been offered in a work of epic fantasy, awaits readers of this book, the opening volume of Stephen R. ![]()
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