{"product_id":"the-runes-of-the-earth-9780441013043","title":"The Runes of the Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson presents the first novel of the four-volume finale to the series that's become a modern fantasy classic: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Covenant lost everything. Abandoned by his wife and child, sick and alone, he was transported while unconscious to a magical, dreamlike world called the Land. Convinced it was all a delusion, Covenant was christened The Unbeliever by the Land's inhabitants--but gave his life to save this new-found world he came to regard as precious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTen years after Covenant's death, Linden Avery still mourns for her beloved companion. But a violent confrontation with Covenant's son, who is doing the evil Lord Foul's bidding, forces her into the Land, where a dark malevolence is about to unmake the laws of nature--and of life and death itself. It is here that she comes upon Esmer, son of the Dancers of the Sea, a creature of strange powers who draws Linden backwards through time to witness Thomas Covenant's return to life, and to reinvent the mysterious, dangerous, and violent history of the Land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen R. Donaldson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the The Great God's War Trilogy and the original six volumes of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a landmark in modern fantasy. Every volume, beginning with \u003ci\u003eLord Foul's Bane\u003c\/i\u003e in 1977, has been an international bestseller. Donaldson returned to the series with The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, comprising \u003ci\u003eThe Runes of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFatal Revenant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgainst All Things Ending\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Dark\u003c\/i\u003e. Donaldson lives in New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ace Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543703785746,"sku":"9780441013043","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bf2db271-e330-47a9-b5a1-9eb8c63cec6e.jpg?v=1731513180","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-runes-of-the-earth-9780441013043","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}