The Eye of the World Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

by Jordan, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780312850098
• ISBN10: 0312850093
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-01-15
• Publisher: Tor Books

Summary

The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, and Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Author Biography

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 is 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 has also written 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®, 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.

Table of Contents

Prologue Dragonmount	vii
Maps	xvi
An Empty Road	1	(15)
Strangers	16	(11)
The Peddler	27	(12)
The Gleeman	39	(13)
Winternight	52	(15)
The Westwood	67	(8)
Out of the Woods	75	(12)
A Place of Safety	87	(13)
Tellings of the Wheel	100	(15)
Leavetaking	115	(9)
The Road to Taren Ferry	124	(8)
Across the Taren	132	(13)
Choices	145	(16)
The Stage and Lion	161	(13)
Strangers and Friends	174	(20)
The Wisdom	194	(10)
Watchers and Hunters	204	(15)
The Caemlyn Road	219	(13)
Shadow's Waiting	232	(16)
Dust on the Wind	248	(16)
Listen to the Wind	264	(11)
A Path Chosen	275	(5)
Wolfbrother	280	(13)
Flight Down the Arinelle	293	(12)
The Traveling People	305	(13)
Whitebridge	318	(19)
Shelter From the Storm	337	(11)
Footprints in Air	348	(7)
Eyes Without Pity	355	(13)
Children of Shadow	368	(14)
Play for Your Supper	382	(10)
Four Kings in Shadow	392	(17)
The Dark Waits	409	(22)
The Last Village	431	(13)
Caemlyn	444	(12)
Web of the Pattern	456	(12)
The Long Chase	468	(7)
Rescue	475	(13)
Weaving of the Web	488	(10)
The Web Tightens	498	(21)
Old Friends and New Threats	519	(13)
Remembrance of Dreams	532	(11)
Decisions and Apparitions	543	(11)
The Dark Along the Ways	554	(11)
What Follows in Shadow	565	(14)
Fal Dara	579	(15)
More Tales of the Wheel	594	(11)
The Blight	605	(10)
The Dark One Stirs	615	(8)
Meetings at the Eye	623	(10)
Against the Shadow	633	(8)
There Is Neither Beginning Nor End	641	(9)
The Wheel Turns	650	(8)
Glossary	658