The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Stephen R. Donaldson. It was followed by The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, also a trilogy, and The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a planned tetralogy.
The central character is Thomas Covenant, a bitter and cynical writer afflicted with leprosy, shunned and despised by society, and destined to become the heroic savior of an alternate world - or, perhap...
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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Stephen R. Donaldson. It was followed by The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, also a trilogy, and The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a planned tetralogy.
The central character is Thomas Covenant, a bitter and cynical writer afflicted with leprosy, shunned and despised by society, and destined to become the heroic savior of an alternate world - or, perhaps, only of his own sanity. Through six novels published between 1977 and 1983, Covenant struggles against the evil Lord Foul, "The Despiser" who intends to break the physical universe to escape its bondage and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy, "The Creator." Some of the story elements correspond to those in Richard Wagner's epic "Ring Cycle", but with inverted values. Stephen R. Donaldson's works are infused with a profoundly serious psychological tone involving an unabashed exploration of dark and repugnant aspects of the protagonist Thomas...
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