- American Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Khaavren (fictitious character), fiction, Dragaera (imaginary place), fiction
A great fantasy read, by Steven Brust. Set in the same universe as his Vlad Taltos series with a very different tone. Brust describes the book as "a blatant ripoff of The Three Musketeers."(see Wikipedia for details and citations on this book). The first in a five book series called The Khaavren Romances.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, resolved and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Steven Brust
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 411
- Publisher
- T. Doherty Associates
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812506891
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