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Gollancz (Fantasy Masterworks No. 23) [Published Date: 2001]. Soft cover, 338 pp.
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In good condition with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Spine creased but binding is still solid. Pages unmarked. [From back cover] When young Airar Alvarson is ruthlessly evicted from the family farm, he has no choice but to make his own way in the world. Charged by a sinister old enchanter with delivering a message to a secret band of conspirators, he finds himself caught up in a plot against the ruling military caste, and his life becomes a whirlwind of action, colour, conflict and romance. And Airar moves from adolescence to manhood leading a desperate rebellion. Set in a brilliantly realized world The Well of the Unicorn is one of the greatest early heroic fantasies and blazed a trail for many contemporary writers. Fantasy Masterworks is a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy. FLETCHER PRATT (1897 - 1956) was born in Buffalo, New York and was a librarian, newspaper reporter and translator as well as the author of more than fifty books. He was best known for his work as a military historian and for his comic collaborations with L. Sprague de Camp, particularly the Incompleat Enchanter sequence. Cover designed by Richard Carr Illustration by Paul