- Shannara (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Druids and Druidism, Druids and druidism in fiction
The Scions of Shannara--Par Ohmsford, Wren, and Walker Boh--face a horrible fate unless they can complete the dangerous tasks assigned to them by the shade of Allanon and avert a horrifying future.
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Classical in form, earnest, epic and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Terry Brooks
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 507
- Publisher
- Orbit, Perfection Learning Prebound, Orbit Books
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- German, French, Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9780356187839
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“The old man sat alone in the shadow of the Dragon's Teeth and watched the coming darkness chase the daylight west.”
Terence Dean Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers.
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