A Game of Thrones

, #1

Reprint Edition, 694 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1996 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-10354-0
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OCLC Number:
1002380292

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From a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any you’ve ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has launched a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of this magnificent saga, the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantasy fans everywhere.

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. To the south, the king’s powers are failing—his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of …

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  • Martin, George R. R. - Prose & Criticism
  • Fiction - Fantasy
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy - Epic
  • Fantasy - Series
  • Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
  • Fantastic fiction
  • Fantasy fiction