The Last Wish
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780575077836 (0575077832)
Publish date: June 7th 2007
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: Saga o Wiedźminie (#1)
"The Last Wish" is a collection of stories about Geralt Rivia, the Witcher, whose occupation is to deal with monsters. This is a frame story in which other stories are the memories that the protagonist recalls as he recovers from a nearly fatal wound. Readers who enjoy dark fantasy, fables, and fair...
Fun, but not much more. One or two quotables. Classic young boys' read, I guess.
“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like ...
Andrzej Sapkowski's The Last Wish is a must read for sword-and-sorcery aficionados. • The Last Wish and most of the series were published in the 1990’s• They spawned from Poland, not the United States or United Kingdom • Inspired the Witcher game series a decade later (2007-ongoing)• More to come, t...
Wstyd trochę przyznać, ale nigdy nie ukończyłam sagi o Wiedźminie. Pierwszy tom opowiadań przeczytałam kilka lat temu, lecz niestety (albo i nie) nic już z niego nie pamiętałam. Ciężko mi jest oceniać zbiór opowiadań w momencie, gdy nie znam reszty książek i na dobrą sprawę nie wiele wiem o przed...
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