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The Knight

Part I of The Wizard Knight, A Novel in Two Parts (The Wizard Knight)

By Gene Wolfe

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| Paperback | 9780765347015

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A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Abel and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will gContinue

A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Abel and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero.

Inside, however, Abel remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, wizards, and dragons. His adventure will conclude in the second volume of The Wizard Knight, The Wizard.

With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and
T. H. White. This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre.

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  • The Best Reviews: Gene Wolfe, The Knight

    "Superb coming of age fantasy" In the United States, his brother Ben needed suddenly to leave, but there was no reason for the young teen to depart also; so he stayed behind to fish, but instead hiked a trail. He was not lost when he slightly went of ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • The Knight

    For fans of Gene Wolfe, 'The Knight' is unlikely to disappoint. First in the series 'The Wizard-Knight', this fantasy tale draws its inspiration from myth and legend. It is packed with evocative descriptions, but is definitely not a book for those wh ... (read full critics)

    bookotron published on Sun, 12 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 544 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0765347016
  • ISBN-13: 9780765347015
  • Publisher: Tor Fantasy
  • Pub date: Aug 02, 2005
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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