List $59.95Written by Robert Jordan - Audio book performed by Kate Reading & Michael Kramer - Unabridged Fiction - 25 COMPACT DISCS - 31 hours
Publisher, Audio Renaissance (May 2004)
Book 1 in the best selling epic series Wheel of Time !
"The solid performances by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer add a new dimension to the story, especially in the way these veteran narrators breathe life into the inner thoughts of the many major players." --AudioFile magazine on Wheel of Time - Book 10 - Crossroads of Twilight
"Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal. . . . The battle scenes have the breathless urgency of firsthand experience, and the . . . evil laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation, the sense of the unavoidable onslaught of unpredictable events bear the marks of American national experience during the last three decades." --The New York Times on The Wheel of Time™
"The Wheel of Time™. . . is a fantasy tale seldom equaled and still less often surpassed in English." --Chicago Sun-Times
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages came and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave 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 ....
It is a year of strangers; 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 of 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 the monsters Rand thought only legend -- the bestial Trollocs, and the horrifying Halfman, whose eyeless gaze is fearless.
They want a boy on the brink of manhood, born within a span of months. They want Rand himself, or his burly, deliberate friend Perrin, or the prankster Mat.
The Dark One, imprisoned by the Creator at the moment of creation, is stirring in Shayol Ghul. It is time for prophecies to be fulfilled. The Wheel of Time is weaving a Web the Pattern of Ages, a Web to entangle the World. It is a time when Time itself may die, when the Eye of the World may be blinded. What was, and what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
