| New Spring Contributor(s): Jordan, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765345455 ISBN-13: 9780765345455 Publisher: Tor Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: June 2005 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: In this bestselling prequel to the Wheel of Time series, it is prophesied that an infant will change the world--an infant that has been born with enemies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Epic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Wheel of Time |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 4.2" W x 6.74" (0.42 lbs) 378 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 103040 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 20.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From America's premier fantasy writer---#1 "New York Times" and "USA Today" bestselling author of "Crossroads of Twilight"---comes "New Spring: The Novel" For three days battle has raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In the city, a Foretelling of the future is uttered. On the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, is born an infant prophesied to change the world. That child must be found before the forces of the Shadow have an opportunity to kill him. Moiraine Damodred, a young Accepted soon to be raised to Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, a soldier fighting in the battle, are set on paths that will bind their lives together. But those paths are filled with complications and dangers, for Moiraine, of the Royal House of Cairhien, whose king has just died, and Lan, considered the uncrowned king of a nation long dead, find their lives threatened by the plots of those seeking power. "New Spring," the novella first published in "Legends," related some of these events, in compressed form; "New Spring: The Novel" tells the whole story. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jordan, Robert: - Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He was a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. A history buff, he also wrote dance and theater criticism and enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. Robert Jordan began writing in 1977 and went on to write The Wheel of Time(R), one of the most important and best selling series in the history of fantasy publishing with over 14 million copies sold in North America, and countless more sold abroad. Robert Jordan died on September 16, 2007, after a courageous battle with the rare blood disease amyloidosis. |