George R.R Martin’s A Game of Thrones 4
series Books Set begins the most imaginative, ambitious and compelling fantasy
epic. There is passion in George R.R Martin’s A Game
of Thrones collection, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor,
tragedy, nobility and courage.
Titles
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
Description
A
Game of Thrones
First volume of a brilliant new fantasy trilogy: the most
powerful, original and absorbing new epic since Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles
of Thomas Covenant. The first volume of George R R Martin's glorious high
fantasy tells the tragic story of treachery, greed and war that threatens the
unity of the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall. Martin unfolds with astonishing
skill a tale of truly epic dimensions, thronged with memorable characters, a
story of treachery and ambition, love and magic. Set in a fabulous world
scarred by battle and catastrophe over 8000 years of recorded history, it tells
of the deeds of men and women locked in the deadliest of conflicts and the
terrible legacy they will leave their children. In the game of thrones, you win
or you die. And in the bitter-cold, unliving lands beyond the Wall, a terrible
winter gathers and the others -- the undead, the neverborn, wildlings to whom
the threat of the sword is nothing -- make ready to descend on the realms of
men. A Game of Thrones begins the most imaginative, ambitious and compelling
fantasy epic since The Lord of the Rings. Thronged with memorable characters,
it unfolds with astonishing skill a tale of truly epic dimensions. There have
been many pretenders to the throne of Tolkien: now at last he has a true heir.
A
Clash of Kings
A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from
the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell,
chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron
Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest,
turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the
dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a
knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men
descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a
backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the
men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when
kings clash, the whole land trembles.
A
Storm of Swords
The third volume of his six-volume fantasy epic A Song of Ice and
Fire, A Storm of Swords continues Martin's vigorous account of the civil wars
which follow the death of King Robert, the usurper who deposed a dynasty gone
mad and dangerous, and the judicial murder by his widow and heir of Ned Stark,
the man who made him king. The surviving Stark children are scattered--Robb
leading revolt in the North, Arya learning hard lessons as she treks through
the war zone, Sansa an observer of court intrigue, crippled Bran heading
towards a sorcerous destiny, Jon engaged in desperate defence of the icewall
against barbarians and worse things. Daenerys, pretender and ruler of dragons,
is building an empire elsewhere. And characters we have thought of as villains,
notably Jaime Kingslayer, are developing belated consciences ... Martin keeps
on upping the ante of violence and betrayal in this compelling saga of a
fantasy middle ages soiled with blood and mud; his economic use of magic and
his fascination with complex characters make this the sword-and-sorcery series
for people with adult taste. As the series proceeds, his writing gets ever
leaner and sharper, the evocation of the magical ever more sinister.
A
Feast for Crows
The fourth volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic
fantasy. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor,
tragedy, nobility and courage. Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the
Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen.
But fear and deceit are in the air: their enemies are poised to strike. The
Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead, and the heir of King Balon of
the Iron Isles, Euron Crow's Eye, is as black a pirate as ever raised a sail.
Across the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms, Brienne the Beauty (thus
named in mockery of her great size and strength) seeks for Sansa Stark, having
vowed to protect Sansa from the wrath of Queen Cersei, Tommen's power-hungry
mother. Meanwhile apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in
arms south to the Citadel from the cruel frozen north where the sinister Others
threaten the Wall! 'A Feast for Crows' brings to life dark magic, complex
political intrigue and horrific bloodshed. Against a backdrop of incest and
fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed
of the coldest steel!and the coldest hearts.
