{"product_id":"the-runes-of-the-earth","title":"The Runes of the Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson presents the first novel of the four-volume finale to the series that's become a modern fantasy classic: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Covenant lost everything. Abandoned by his wife and child, sick and alone, he was transported while unconscious to a magical, dreamlike world called the Land. Convinced it was all a delusion, Covenant was christened The Unbeliever by the Land's inhabitants--but gave his life to save this new-found world he came to regard as precious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTen years after Covenant's death, Linden Avery still mourns for her beloved companion. But a violent confrontation with Covenant's son, who is doing the evil Lord Foul's bidding, forces her into the Land, where a dark malevolence is about to unmake the laws of nature--and of life and death itself. It is here that she comes upon Esmer, son of the Dancers of the Sea, a creature of strange powers who draws Linden backwards through time to witness Thomas Covenant's return to life, and to reinvent the mysterious, dangerous, and violent history of the Land.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50301510189413,"sku":"9780441013043","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_218a615a-ea79-4e3c-9894-a07c168898a8.jpg?v=1785544566","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/the-runes-of-the-earth","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}