EBOOK
Pages
416
Year
1994
Language
English

About

The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly.

Sword & Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume:

The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.

The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will forever alter the realm known as Urth.

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"Outstanding...A major work of twentieth-century American literature."
The New York Times Book Review
"Wonderfully vivid and inventive...the most extraordinary hero in the history of the heroic epic."
Washington Post Book World
"Brilliant...terrific...a fantasy so epic it beggars the mind. An extraordinary work of art!"
Philadelphia Inquirer

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