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The strange and exotic Menzoberranzan—the great city of the Underdark, founded millennia ago by the dark elves after they left the surface world—is the home of Drizzt Do'Urden, the hero of *The Icewind Dale*. Drizzt, the young prince of one of the ruling houses, comes of age in his race's cruel and ruthless world, where the only ray of hope is his weapons master, Zaknafein, who teaches him how—and why—to wield a sword. Possessing a sense of honor incomprehensible to the unprincipled society around him—a society intent only on satisfying the vile whims of the Spider Queen—young Drizzt faces an inevitable dilemma: can he live in a world that rejects integrity?
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and richly built.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- R. A. Salvatore
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 325
- Publisher
- Distributed in the U.S. by Holtzbrinck Pub., Idea & Design Works, LLC, Minotauro
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- Spanish, French, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780786931231
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“To a surface dweller, he might have passed undetected only a foot away.”
Robert Anthony Salvatore (born January 20, 1959) is an American author best known for The DemonWars Saga; and The Legend of Drizzt, for which he created the popular character Drizzt Do'Urden; and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series. He has sold more than 15 million copies of his books in the United States alone and twenty-two of his titles have been New York Times best-sellers.
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