- Fiction, Magicians, Midkemia (Imaginary place), Jimmy the Hand (Fictitious character)
At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master Magician – and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever.
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- Author
- Raymond E. Feist
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 700
- Publisher
- Grim Oak Press, Doubleday, HarperCollins UK
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Italian, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9789029055505
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“The storm had broken. Pug danced along the edge of the rocks, his feet finding scant purchase as he made his way among the tide pools.”
Raymond Elias Feist (born Raymond Elias Gonzales III; December 21, 1945) is an American author known for his epic fantasy series, *The Riftwar Cycle*. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Southern California, Feist adopted the surname of his stepfather, Felix E. Feist, after his mother remarried. He graduated with honors from the University of California, San Diego, in 1977 with a B.A. in Communication Arts. Feist's journey into writing began during his college years when he and his friends created the role-playing game *Midkemia* as an alternative to *Dungeons & Dragons*. This game served as the foundation for his first novel, [*Magician*][4], published in 1982, which introduced readers to the
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