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RAYMOND E. FEIST
Silverthorn
Copyright
HarperVoyager
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Previously published in paperback by Grafton Books 1986
And by HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy 1995
Reprinted ten times
And by Voyager 1997
Reprinted thirty-two times
And by HarperVoyager 2006, 2009
Copyright © Raymond E. Feist 1986
First Published in Great Britain By Grafton Books 1986
Raymond E. Feist asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780007229420
Ebook Edition © January 2013 ISBN: 9780007370221
Version: 2017-09-07
This book is dedicated to my nephews and niece,
Benjamin Adam Feist
Ethan Aaron Feist,
Alicia Jeanne Lareau,
Little magicians, all
BOOK III
Arutha and Jimmy
Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.
– MILTON, Paradise Lost, BOOK II, 1. 476
Table of Contents
Chapter Nineteen: Continuation
• SYNOPSIS •
Our Story So Far …
UPON THE WORLD OF MIDKEMIA, THE MIGHTY KINGDOM OF THE Isles arose,