β Scribed by Gene Wolfe
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 912 pages
Published 2004
Tor Books (2020)
Omnibus:
1- The Knight (2004)
2- The Wizard (2004)
Introduction by: Yves Meynard (author of The Book of Knights)
Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2005),
THE WIZARD KNIGHT springs from the myths, legends and literature of times past. given a hero's adult body and named Able. Though forced to act as a man, inside he is still a boy, even as he sets off to find his destined sword and become a knight. repeatedly tries to seduce him), and serves the mercurial dragon king Arnthor in a was that could end everything.
A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm consisting of seven levels of reality. Transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Sir Able of the High Heart and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, the blade that will help him fulfill his ambition to become a true heroβa true knight. Inside, however, Sir Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive what lies ahead...
β[Wolfe] should enjoy the same rapt attention we afford to Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy.β βThe Washington Post on The Knight
βWolfeβs version of Faerie is both allusive and elusive, beautiful and fatally glamorous.β βTad Williams on The Knight
"Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. This book [is] important and wonderful." βNeil Gaiman on The Knight
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