The Ruby Knight. David Eddings
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Название: The Ruby Knight
Автор: David Eddings
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Классическая проза
isbn: 9780007375073
isbn:
Voyager
David Eddings
The Ruby Knight
The Elenium
Book Two
Copyright
HarperVoyager An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1990
Copyright © David Eddings 1990.
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David Eddings asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007127825
EbookEdition © JUNE 2010 ISBN 9780007375073
Version: 20-03-2015
Dedication
For Young Mike ‘put it in the car’
and for Peggy ‘what happened to my balloons’
Contents
Copyright
Map
Prologue
It was in the twenty-fifth century when the hordes of…
Part One: Lake Randera
Chapter 1
It was well after midnight, and a dense grey fog…
Chapter 2
The fog was even thicker when they gathered in the…
Chapter 3
Sephrenia was tending a large, ugly-looking bruise on Berit’s upper…
Chapter 4
The castle of Baron Alstrom was situated on a rocky…
Chapter 5
The booming crash of boulders slamming against the walls of…
Chapter 6
‘We’ll need to go to the highest point in your…
Chapter 7
The toll bridge was narrow and in some disrepair. A…
Chapter 8
The ancient battlefield at Lake Randera in north central Lamorkand…
Chapter 9
Ulath walked over to where Tynian sat on the wet…
Part Two: Ghasek
Chapter 10
The rain was slackening, and a fitful breeze was coming…
Chapter 11
They slept late the following morning. Sparhawk awoke before daybreak,…
Chapter 12
Their mood was very bleak the following morning as they…
Chapter 13
Because the road they proposed to follow was reputed to…
Chapter 14
The corridor into which the surly gate-guard led them was…
Chapter 15
‘How did she get out of that tower?’ Sparhawk asked…
Chapter 16
They removed their armour and put on the plain workmen’s…
Chapter 17
‘I am eternally in your debt, my friends,’ Ghasek said…
Part Three: The Troll Cave
Chapter 18
‘Was that really Azash?’ Kalten asked in awe.
Chapter 19
Sparhawk sat in the room he shared with Kalten, poring…
Chapter 20
They dragged the husk of the Seeker off the road…
Chapter 21
Promptly at noon, King Soros of Pelosia called a halt.
Chapter 22
It seemed that it took them two more weeks to…
Chapter 23
It was that same peculiarly drowsy melody Flute had played…
Chapter 24
They rode out at first light, circled through the forest…
Chapter 25
The cave had the musty smell of long-damp earth СКАЧАТЬ