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A bastard prince relegated to cleaning stables is chosen by a king to become an assassin. The novel follows the training and missions of this man who has inherited magical skills, among them mind-control and the ability to communicate with animals.

Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores.

To prevent the Shadowen from destroying all life in the Four Lands, Allanon's spirit orders the scions of Shannara to perform manifestly impossible tasks.

Thomas Covenant finds himself magically shunted to a mysterious world known as the Land, a world threatened by the evil intentions of Lord Foul the Despiser.

The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor. Embedded in English legend and English association, they were set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or AElfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original...

Roo rises to power as a ruthless businessman who takes on cutthroat bankers as well as two gorgeous, jealous women, in an adventure set in the tumultuous universe called Midkemia.

A half-drowned elf is rescued from the Blue Divide seas carrying a map with mysterious symbols. He is believed to be part of an expedition led by an elven prince 30 years before in search of a legendary magic. Only Walker Boh, the last of the Druids, can decipher the symbols. But the Ilse Witch, a ruthless young woman who wields a magic as potent as his own, will stop at nothing to possess the map--and the magic it leads to.

The Lays of Beleriand are epic stories in verse form of the Elder days of Middle-earth. Contained herein is The Lay of the Children of Hurin, which tell the tale of Turin Son of Hurin and Glorund the Dragon. The Lay of Leithian tells of Thingol, of the meeting of Beren and Luthien, and of the battle between Fiingolfin and Morgoth. Together these Lays form an important backdrop to The Silmarillion, and illuminate some of the oldest tales of Middle-earth....

The powerful clan of telepaths known as the Rowan have joined forces with the alien Mrdini in their mutual battle against the predatory Hivers, but their alliance is threatened from within by sabotage and assassination. For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as The Rowan have used their talents to benefit humanity as civilization reaches out to colonize the stars. Now, with their goals of peace and prosperity so close at...

Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.