Tor Books 1/15/1990 Hardback or Cased Book New in New jacket The Eye of the World (Hardback or Cased Book)

Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, Book #1) by Robert JordanThe Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy when the World and Time themselves hang in the balance, a wind rises in the mountains of mist.... and Rand al'Thor is cold. Through the spring festival of Bell Tine comes tomorrow, it is a year without spring, a year when green things fail and hope is dying.It is a year of strangers; of a lady; and a gleeman with his tales of heroes; and a peddler with news of the present -- of war with Ghealdan, far away, and the rising of a false Dragon -- the savior whose coming, foretold and dreaded, will bring a new Breaking to the World. But the worst strangers are monsters Rand thought only legend -- the bestial Trollocs and the horrifying Halfmen, whose eyeless gaze is fear.They want a boy on the brink of manhood, born within a certain span of months. They want Rand himself, or his burly, deliberate friend Perrin, or the prankster Mat.It is a world where nothing is what it seems. Not Nynaeve, the village wisdom, who can Read the Wind. Not Moiraine, the lady from outside, whose beauty hides a terrifying identity and a Power that seemed only yesterday to be the stuff of legend. Not the lady's companion, Lan, whose chameleon cloak is stranger than the fluttering, multi-hued garment that proclaims the gleeman's ...