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THE WHEEL
O F TIME
ROBERT JORDAN
The Eye of the World (1990)
The Great Hunt (1990)
The Dragon Reborn (1991)
The Shadow Rising (1992)
The Fires of Heaven (1993)
Lord of Chaos (1994)
A Crown of Swords (1996)
The Path of Daggers (1998)

The world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time lies both in our future and our past, a
world of kings and queens and Aes Sedai, women who can tap the True Source and wield the
One Power, which turns the Wheel and drives the universe: a world where the war between the
Light and the Shadow is fought every day.
At the moment of Creation, the Creator bound the Dark One away from the world of
humankind, but more than three thousand years ago Aes Sedai, then both men and women,
unknowingly bored into that prison outside of time. The Dark One was only able to touch the
world lightly, and the hole was eventually sealed over, but the Dark One's taint settled on saidin,
the male half of the Power. Eventually every male Aes Sedai went mad, and in the Breaking of
the World they destroyed civilization and changed the very face of Earth, sinking mountains
beneath the sea and bringing new seas where land had been.
Now only women bear the title Aes Sedai. Commanded by their Amyrlin Seat and divided
into seven Ajahs named by colour, they rule the great island city of Tar Valon, where their White
Tower is located, and are bound by the Three Oaths, fixed into their bones with saidar, the
female half of the Power: to speak no word that is not true, to make no weapon for one man to
kill another, and never to use the One Power except as a weapon against Shadowspawn or in the
last extreme of defending her own life, or that of her Warder or another sister.
Men still are born who can learn to channel the Power, or worse, who will channel one
day whether they try to or not. Doomed to madness, destruction, and death by the taint on saidin,
they are hunted down by Aes Sedai and gentled, cut off for ever from the Power for the safety of
the world. No man goes to this willingly. Even if they survive the hunt, they seldom survive long
after gentling.
For more than three thousand years, while nations and empires rose and fell, nothing has
been so feared as a man who can channel. But for all those three thousand years there have been
the Prophecies of the Dragon, that the seals on the Dark One's prison will weaken and he will
touch the world once more, and that the Dragon, who sealed up that hole, will be Reborn to face
the Dark One again. A child, born in sight of Tar Valon on the slopes of Dragonmount, will grow
up to be the Dragon Reborn, the only hope of humanity in the Last Battle - a man who can
channel. Few people know more than scraps of the Prophecies, and few want to know more.
A world of kings and queens, nations and wars, where the White Tower rules only Tar
Valon but even kings and queens are wary of Aes Sedai machinations. A world where the
Shadow and the Prophecies loom together.
The present story takes place before the first volume of the series. The succeeding books
should be read in order.


NEW SPRING
BY ROBERT JORDAN