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Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator
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8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall 1857989775 Paperback Paperback. Crease to corner back cover. This edition contains The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, the first two volumes of this four volume novel. 603 pp. (Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc. ) 
(608 pages) award winning quest of discovery through an earth fantastically transformed by aeons of humanity. part v.1 (Paperback) 
Award winning quest of discovery through an Earth fantastically transformed by aeons of humanity. 
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