The
Chronicles of
Thomas Covenant,
the Unbeliever
Volume One
Cursed by a
terrible disease,
Thomas Covenant is
an outcast in our
world: shunned by
his neighbours,
pushed by
loneliness to the
edges of madness.
Suddenly he is
transported to a
mysterious and
beautiful new
world - the Land -
where gentle
people work magic
with wood and
stone, and the
very earth and air
bring
healing.
Covenant is
welcomed as the
reincarnation of a
legendary saviour:
his maimed hand
and white-gold
wedding ring mark
him as a figure of
power and sorcery,
with a wild magic
powerful against
evil.
But Covenant
does not believe
that the Land is
real and thus, he
becomes the
unwilling tool of
the enemy who
seeks to destroy
it: Lord Foul the
Despiser.
Three times, in
their hour of
greatest need, the
peoples of the
Land will summon
him to their
aid. Three
times, as their
reluctant leader,
he will fail them.
Only at the
end, as a
victorious Lord
Foul prepares to
devastate the Land
and enslave its
people forever,
will Thomas
Covenant call on
the wild magic he
alone can wield -
for a last, epic
battle with the
forces of evil ... |
