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The Last Dark

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Copyright © 2013 by Stephen R. Donaldson
2013
Fantasy
2015
1 time
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What Has Gone Vefore
Part One - "to bear what must me borne"
1 - Betimes Some Wonder
2 - Nightfall
3 - Not Dead to Life and Use
4 - "Try to Beleive"
5 - Coming
6 - Promises Old and New
7 - Taking the Risk
8 - The Right Materials
9 - An Impoverished Temple
10 - But While I Can
11 - Back from the Brink
12 - After Too Long
Part Two - "the abyss and the peak"
1 - A Tale Which Will Remain
2 - Toward Confrontation
3 - Summoned to Oppose
4 - Reluctances
5 - "No Prospect of Return"
6 - The Aid of the Feroce
7 - At Last
8 - Shamed Choices
9 - Parting Company
10 - All Lost Women
11 - Of My Deeper Purpose
12 - You Are Mine
Epilogue - "The soul in which the flower grows"
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1424
 Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant*
#4 of 4
Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant*     See series as if on a bookshelf
The third series in the Thomas Covenant books published about twenty years after the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

1) The Runes of the Earth
2) Fatal Revenant
3) Against All Things Ending
4) The Last Dark

 Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
#10 of 10
to Jennifer Dunstan,
    who stood with me the whole time
and to John Eccker,
    who has put in more effort, and has been of
    more help, than I could ever have expected
and to Robyn H. Butler:
    "And they lived happily ever after."
Linden Avery's fate may indeed have been written in water.
May contain spoilers
But their silver lingered for a time, until the day moved on.
Comments may contain spoilers
I read this at the same time I read Odd Thomas and The Blade Itself and just after All You Need Is Kill.
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Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 11-Jul-2015

Quotes

Ah deserve....  The notion of deserved and undeserved is a fancy.  Knowing both life and death, we endeavor to impose worth and meaning upon our deeds, and thereby to comfort our fear of impermanence.  We choose to imagine that our lives merit continuance.  Mayhap all sentience shares a similar fancy.  Mayhap the Earth itself, being sentient in its fashion, shares it.  Nonetheless it is a fancy.  A wider gaze does not regard us in that wise.  The stars do not.  Perhaps the Creator does not.  The larger truth is merely that all things end.  By that measure, our fancies cannot be distinguished from dust.

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 01-Sep-2014
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Date Issued:
01-Sep-2014
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Cover Price:
$17.00
Pages*:
557
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Once
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Internal ID:
1486
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-425-27005-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-425-27005-9
Printing:
2
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Lisa Amoroso - Cover Design
Meighan Cavanagh - Interior Text Design
John Jude Palencar  - Cover Artist
Ater more than three decades, having attained bestseller status all over the world, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant reaches its conclusion.  This is a truly historic moment in fantasy, as Stephen R. Donaldson's innumerable fans learn of the final fate of the Land.

The worm of the World's End is roused, seeking the ruin of all things....

Compelled step-by-step to actions whose consequences they could neither forsee nor prevent, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the magical reality known only as "the Land."  Now they face their final crisis.  Reunited after their separate stuggles, they discover in each other their true power - and yet they cannot imagine how to stop the Worm of the World's End from unmaking Time.  Nevertheless, they must resist the ruin of all things, giving their last strength in the service of the world's continuance.

You risk much, as you have ever done.  Mayhap you will prevail.  If you do not, your worth is not thereby diminished.

"Donaldson build toward a staggering resolution of love, endurance, and self sacrifice."
- TOR.COM


[Donaldson's] work is remarkably distinct in its hero, its themes, its relationship to the real world."
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL


Donaldson's landmark historical fantasy series marks a milestone of epic storytelling."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL
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