The Redemption of Althalus

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Here in a single volume is a completely new and self-contained epic from the modern masters of fantasy. The Rédemption ofAlthalus is set on the grandest scale in an éntirely new, magicai world. Althalus - burglar, armed robber and occasional murderer - is commissioned to steal a book by a mysterious cloaked stranger named Ghend. Althalus sets off to the House at the End of the World where the book is kept - aíter stealing Ghend's cloak; aíter all, winter is coming on. At the House at the End of the World, in the same room as the book Ghend described, he finds a talking cat. What he can't find once he's in the house is the door by which he entered. And Dríwos marked tíiat awfid edge withfire to warn all men back from Daeva's abyss, and tfien he rested there in fiís keep and communed wiú his 'Book while time continued her stately march. " - By the time he manages to escape - with the cat, Emerald, in the hood of his (Ghend's) cloak - Althalus can read. He's read the Book of Deiwos,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Here in a single volume is a completely new and self-contained epic from the modern masters of fantasy. The Rédemption ofAlthalus is set on the grandest scale in an éntirely new, magicai world. Althalus - burglar, armed robber and occasional murderer - is commissioned to steal a book by a mysterious cloaked stranger named Ghend. Althalus sets off to the House at the End of the World where the book is kept - aíter stealing Ghend's cloak; aíter all, winter is coming on. At the House at the End of the World, in the same room as the book Ghend described, he finds a talking cat. What he can't find once he's in the house is the door by which he entered. And Dríwos marked tíiat awfid edge withfire to warn all men back from Daeva's abyss, and tfien he rested there in fiís keep and communed wiú his 'Book while time continued her stately march. " - By the time he manages to escape - with the cat, Emerald, in the hood of his (Ghend's) cloak - Althalus can read. He's read the Book of Deiwos, and discovered a tool mightier than the blunt instrument he once used to disable his victims. But there is another Book, written by the god Daeva who is the evil brother of Deiwos, and who is trying to unmake the world. And ghend lifted his faee and looked upon Althalus with his hurniiy eyes. And the eyes of ghend seared at the soul ofAlthalus. And ghend spoke then, saying, 'It is oflittle moment, my thiej. 'Run, Althalus, run, and I sliall pursue you down the nights and down the years, and the Hook sliall avatiyou not. for I shall deliver you up to the tlirone ojDaeva.' Vissza