The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of the Belgariad and the Malloreon

Eddings, David and Leigh

ISBN 10: 0002246775 / ISBN 13: 9780002246774

Editore: Voyager Books, 1998

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VGC.Voyager, 1998. First UK edition-first printing (1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Blue hardback (gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Illustrated with b/w drawings, maps. Nice and clean pages but slightly tainted and yellow on the outer edges, previous owner's inscription written on the edges of the front endpaper. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear. 394pp including Afterward. Price un-clipped. Codice articolo 10761

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Titolo: The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of the ...

Casa editrice: Voyager Books

Data di pubblicazione: 1998

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very good

Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good

Edizione: First UK edition-first printing.

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Riassunto:

Comprising the ancient texts of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, The Rivan Codex is a book which stands in the same relationship to the Belgariad and Malloreon as The Silmarillion does to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Before David Eddings started to write his first fantasy series, the BELGARIAD, in the late 1970s, he spent a year working on the design and mythology of the fantasy world in which it is set.

The Rivan Codex comprises the immensely readable background material to Eddings’ best-loved series, repeated information a lot of it, but it’s the books that repeat the information, and these seminal documents have about them an air of original inspiration, world-building in action. The rest of it is background which is taken for granted but not spelled out.

History, geography, myths and folktales, peoples, gods, customs, social organization, political hierarchy, laws, dress, modes of address, produce, culture, flora, fauna, all presented with so light a touch one can only yearn for Eddings to be taken up by academics so that his style might catch on in the real real world.

The 12-book long series grew out of these delightful preliminary sketches like a river growing from a spring of striking purity and constancy. Magically, the information reads fresh each time, minimal Eddings prose, beguilingly arcane, in which massive events attain an all-time perspective.

Recensione:

From reviews of Belgarath the Sorcerer:

‘My ideal summer read... Having enjoyed the entire ten-book serial, I was delighted to be able to read this latest addition as it not only provides fantastic escapism in itself, but, being a prequel, will make my re-reading of the other books all the more fascinating.’
The Irish Times

‘All the verve and pace we’ve come to expect.’
The Dark Side

‘Offers an absorbing storyline and some memorable characters as, once again, the author touches all the right fantasy bases, with warring gods, political intrigues, supernatural creatures and appealingly human magicians involved in a titanic war over the course of seven millennia. Eddings fans will no doubt snatch this novel off the shelves while readers new to the authors’
world won’t find a more appropriate place to begin exploring it.’
Publishers Weekly

‘There’s no denying Eddings’
offerings do entertain. This novel is for fantasy fans fed up with more fusty fare, or for anyone who likes mischief and merriment.’
West Australian