The Hidden City

by David Eddings

  Knowing this, the Ruler of the Wasteland, ambitious to become a God by destroying Gods, watches and waits, marshalling troops for war. But the coming of the Dreamers passes unnoticed in the Wasteland. The world is soon out of kilter. It is being dreamed, and the awakening of Gods is no simple transition.

  The sleeping Gods are stirring. When they wake, the battle will begin.

  There will be trickery and deception. Tribes of humans, creatures of the deep, the sea itself and the earth, the weather and the divinities, all will play their part in the epic struggle against the Ruler of the Wasteland.

  ISBN: 0-00-715760-6

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  David and Leigh Eddings

  Belgarath the Sorcerer

  ‘This sixth volume in the Belgariad tells the full story of the legendary sorcerer Belgarath with all the verve and pace we’ve come to expect from these authors’

  The Dark Side

  Eagerly awaited for a decade, here at last is the full epic story of Belgarath, the great sorcerer learned in the Will and the Word on whom the fate of the world depends. Only Belgarath can tell of those near-forgotten times when Gods still walked the land: he is the Ancient One, the Old Wolf, his God Aldur’s first and most-favoured disciple. Using powers learned over the centuries Belgarath himself records the story of conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies that split the world asunder.

  A hugely entertaining work of great daring, wit, grandeur and excitement that confirms the role of Belgarath the Sorcerer as one of the mightiest fantasy creations of the century.

  ‘Nobody writes modern fantasy like Eddings or as well… Eddings is at the top with the very best’

  Vector

  ISBN 0 586 21315 5

  By David Eddings

  THE ELENIUM

  Book One: The Diamond Throne

  Book Two: The Ruby Knight

  Book Three: The Sapphire Rose

  THE TAMULI

  Book One: Domes of Fire

  Book Two: The Shining Ones

  Book Three: The Hidden City

  By David and Leigh Eddings

  Belgarath the Sorcerer

  Polgara the Sorceress

  The Rivan Codex

  The Redemption of Althalus

  THE DREAMERS

  Book One: The Elder Gods

  Book Two: The Treasured One

  Book Three: Crystal Gorge

  About the Author

  THE HIDDEN CITY

  David Eddings was born in Washington State and grew up near Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington and went on to serve in the United States Army. Subsequently, he worked as a buyer for the Boeing Company, and taught college-level English. His first novel, High Hunt, was a contemporary adventure story, but he soon began a spectacular career as a fantasy writer with his best-selling series The Belgariad. He consolidated his immediate success with three further enormously popular series, The Malloreon, The Elenium and The Tamuli. Writing with his wife Leigh, three final volumes rounded off the Belgariad: Belgarath the Sorcerer, Polgara the Sorceress and The Rivan Codex. These were followed by the epic standalone fantasy The Redemption of Althalus, and his latest series of books, The Dreamers.

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  This paperback edition 2006

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  Previously published in paperback by Voyager 1996, reprinted twelve times.

  First published in Great Britain by

  HarperCollins Science Fiction and Fantasy 1995

  Copyright © David Eddings 1994

  The Author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

  ISBN-13 978 0 00 721708 3

  ISBN-10 0 00 721708 0

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