Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, Book #1)
by Jordan, Robert
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Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, Book #1) by Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy when the World and Time themselves hang in the balance, a wind rises in the mountains of mist.... and Rand al'Thor is cold. Through the spring festival of Bell Tine comes tomorrow, it is a year without spring, a year when green things fail and hope is dying.
It is a year of strangers; of a lady; and a gleeman with his tales of heroes; and a peddler with news of the present -- of war with Ghealdan, far away, and the rising of a false Dragon -- the savior whose coming, foretold and dreaded, will bring a new Breaking to the World. But the worst strangers are monsters Rand thought only legend -- the bestial Trollocs and the horrifying Halfmen, whose eyeless gaze is fear.
They want a boy on the brink of manhood, born within a certain span of months. They want Rand himself, or his burly, deliberate friend Perrin, or the prankster Mat.
It is a world where nothing is what it seems. Not Nynaeve, the village wisdom, who can Read the Wind. Not Moiraine, the lady from outside, whose beauty hides a terrifying identity and a Power that seemed only yesterday to be the stuff of legend. Not the lady's companion, Lan, whose chameleon cloak is stranger than the fluttering, multi-hued garment that proclaims the gleeman's trade of old Thom Merrilin. And not Egwene, the innkeeper's dark-haired daughter caught between childhood and womanhood, between love of Rand and determination to become all that her destiny would make her.
The villagers know only that Trollocs hunt them. They have no way of knowing that the Dark One, imprisoned by the Creator at the moment of creation, is stirring in Shayol Ghul.
It is a time for prophecies to be fulfilled. The Wheel of Time is weaving a Web in the Pattern of Ages, a Web to entangle the World. It is a time when Time itself may die, when the Eye of the World may be blinded. What was, and what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.
Tor Fantasy, Hardcover, 1st Edition, Later Printing, 1990.
Synopsis
The Eye of the World (abbreviated as tEotW or EotW by fans) is the first book of The Wheel of Time (WoT) fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan. It was published by Tor Books and released on January 15, 1990. The unabridged audio book is read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading (Jennifer Mendenhall). On January 2, 2002, The Eye of the World was re-released as two separate books aimed at a young adult literature market, with larger text and a handful of illustrations.
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Reviews
What a fantastic book! So much depth to the characters and this is written so well i found it impossible to put down. Robert Jordan has a way of pulling you in and making you visualize so clearly what is happening that its as if you yourself were there!
Great start to a great series! The mid books get bogged down in too many details, but the early books (and final ones, written by Brandon Sanderson based on Jordan's notes) are among the finest fantasy books in the modern era.
If Robert Jordan would have kept things on a MUCH shorter MUCH simpler level he might have had a great series. He would have been able to finish the books before his death at only 58. I only read the first three and I have since regretted it.
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- Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, Book #1)
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- Jordan, Robert
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312850093
- ISBN 13
- 9780312850098
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- Tor Fantasy
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1990
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