The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of the "Belgariad" and the "Malloreon" - Softcover

Eddings, David; Eddings, Leigh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0002246961 ISBN 13: 9780002246965

Verlag: Voyager, 1999

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Comprising the ancient texts of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, The Rivan Codex is a book which stands in the same relationship to the Belgariad and Malloreon as The Silmarillion does to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Before David Eddings started to write his first fantasy series, the BELGARIAD, in the late 1970s, he spent a year working on the design and mythology of the fantasy world in which it is set.

The Rivan Codex comprises the immensely readable background material to Eddings’ best-loved series, repeated information a lot of it, but it’s the books that repeat the information, and these seminal documents have about them an air of original inspiration, world-building in action. The rest of it is background which is taken for granted but not spelled out.

History, geography, myths and folktales, peoples, gods, customs, social organization, political hierarchy, laws, dress, modes of address, produce, culture, flora, fauna, all presented with so light a touch one can only yearn for Eddings to be taken up by academics so that his style might catch on in the real real world.

The 12-book long series grew out of these delightful preliminary sketches like a river growing from a spring of striking purity and constancy. Magically, the information reads fresh each time, minimal Eddings prose, beguilingly arcane, in which massive events attain an all-time perspective.

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David Eddings was born in Washington State in 1931 and grew up near Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington and went on to serve in the US Army. Subsequently he worked as a buyer for the Boeing company and taught college-level English. His first novel was a contemporary adventure, but he soon began a spectacular career as a fantasy writer with his bestselling series The Belgariad.

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'THE RIVAN CODEX' David and Leigh Eddings
Illustrated by Geoff Taylor
Ancient Texts of the Belgariad and The Malloreon

'THE RIVAN CODEX' is a book full of wonders. In its pages can be found the origin and the birth of the greatest fantasy epic of modern times which began with 'The Belgariad' and continued with 'The Malloreon.' Here for the very first time David and Leigh Eddings present the seminal texts on which they built their world-wide best-selling masterpiece. Its undeniable air of authenticity was forged in the beautiful writings that make up 'The Rivan Codex'.

Eminently collectable, absolutely essential, 'The Rivan Codex' is the book no Eddings reader will want to miss. It contains:
• Preface by Belgarath the Sorcerer

• The Holy Books
• The Histories
• The Battle of Vo Mimbre
• The Book of Ages, The Book of Fates, The Book of Tasks, The Book of Generations, The Book of Visions
• A Summary of Events

"I wished 'Polgara the Sorceress' was longer … the characters are so vivid and genuinely likeable, and there's an easy lilt to the prose which makes reading it pure pleasure. It's a wonderful book."
'SFX'

"'Belgarath the Sorcerer' tells the full story of the legendary sorcerer Belgarath with all the verve and pace we've come to expect from these authors"
'THE DARK SIDE'

"Nobody writes modern fantasy like Eddings or as well … Eddings is at the top with the very best"
'VECTOR'

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Voyager
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0002246961
• ISBN 13: 9780002246965
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 600
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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