A Game of Thrones

ISBN-13: 9780007428540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 864 str.

George R.R. Martin

Opis

This is the first volume of a fantasy trilogy. It tells the tragic tale of treachery, greed and war that threatens the unity of the Seven Kingdoms. It is a powerful and absorbing epic in the style of Stephen Donaldson's 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'.

Recenzje

'Colossal, staggering... Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world ... one of the greats of fantasy literature'
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'This is one of those rare and effortless reads' ROBIN HOBB

'George R.R. Martin is one of our very best writers, and this is one of his very best books' RAYMOND E. FEIST

'Such a splendid tale. I read my eyes out - I couldn't stop till I'd finished and it was dawn' ANNE MCCAFFREY

'George Martin is assuredly a new master craftsman in the guild of heroic fantasy' KATHARINE KERR

'Few created worlds are as imaginative and diverse' JANNY WURTS

O autorze

George R.R. Martin is the author of fifteen novels and novellas, including five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, several collections of short stories, as well as screenplays for television and feature films. Dubbed 'the American Tolkien', George R.R. Martin has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an Executive Producer on HBO's Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones, which is based on his A Song of Ice and Fire series. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.