The Tower at the Edge of the World is William Heinesen's last novel written when he was 76, and is the summation of all of his work. He is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Nordic author of the twentieth century. William Heinesen describes The Tower at the Edge of the World as a poetic mosai
Tower at the Edge of Time
โ Scribed by carter, Lin
- Publisher
- Belmont/Tower Books
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
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โฆ Synopsis
It was Thane who crossed the abyss of the ages and stood on the very brink of Eternity...
who
found the secret of the Time Treasure... who saw, and laughed and came
back sane from that place beyond the Universe where no man had ever been
before him, and where none should ever come again.
This was the ending. But the beginning was in the city of Zotheera on the planet Daikoon...
...A restless outworlder was Thane of the Two Swords. A man of blood and steel, a man of strange powers strangely acquired.
The
warrior Thane possessed a secret vital to the greedy Princes of the
Planets. And it was on the planet Daikoon that the princes tried to buy
Thane's services...
โฆ Subjects
Space and time -- Fiction
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