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Prologue"Whoopee shit! It's finally happening," she said. "A hundred years of tracking protohuman migration patterns on the African plain and it's finally over! It feels so good that I almost don't hate your guts anymore!""Well, don't get too carried away. You deserved every minute of it for...

PrologueBeing an account of beginningsand endings.^Excerpts from The Book of Torak*Hear me, ye Angaraks, for I am Torak, Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Bow before my Name and worship me with prayers and with sacrifices, for I am your God and I have dominion over all the realms of the Angaraks....

; ; I i What Has Qonc Before Thomas Covenant is a happy and successful author until an unfelt infection leads to the amputation of two fingers. Then he learns he has leprosy. The disease is anested at a leprosarium, but he returns home to find himself an outcast. His wife has divorced him, and...

What Has Qonc BeforeThe Wounded Land, Book One of The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, describes the return of Thomas Covenant to the Landa realm of magic and peril where, in the past, he fought a bitter battle against sin and madness, and prevailed. Using the power of wild magic, he overcame...