As Martin's richly imagined world slides closer to its 10-year winter, both the weather and the warfare worsen.

The third volume of the high fantasy saga that began with A Game of Thrones and continued in A Clash of Kings is one of the more rewarding examples of gigantism in contemporary fantasy. Martin is the author of fourteen novels, including five volumes of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, several collections of short stories and numerous screen plays for television drama and feature films. ‘The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads… Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias’ ‘Colossal, staggering… all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome’ ‘Of those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, George R.R. Meanwhile, across the ocean, Daenerys Stormborn, the last heir of the Dragon King, delivers death to the slave-trading cities of Astapor and Yunkai as she approaches Westeros with vengeance in her heart. And while his youngest sister, Arya, has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei Lannister and her son, the capricious boy-king Joffrey, Sansa Stark remains their captive.

Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold his crown.

OL17563825W Page_number_confidence 96.50 Pages 660 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210716212255 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 677 Scandate 20210715192155 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007119554 Tts_version 4.HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.Ī STORM OF SWORDS: BLOOD AND GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume in the series. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:04:10 Boxid IA40174014 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

A storm of swords blood and gold