Years after reading Wizard’s First Rule Goodkind fans still ask themselves, “What would Richard do?” when confronted with life’s obstacles and challenges. Goodkind took on the toughest of all literary challenges: to tell an electrifying story of action, violence, and adventure that would also make people think, and that would influence the choices and actions of its readers. The importance of Wizard’s First Rule, goes beyond these achievements. Hunted relentlessly, betrayed and alone, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword and invoke something more noble within himself as the final confrontation with Darken Rahl looms. Learning his true identity, Richard accepts his destiny as the one man who can stop the bloodthirsty tyrant Darken Rahl. In Wizard’s First Rule, Goodkind introduced the world to an ordinary forest guide, Richard Cypher, and the mysterious, powerful woman he comes to love, Kahlan Amnell.
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Placing Goodkind in the elite club of #1 New York Times bestselling authors, the series has sold more than 20 million copies to date worldwide. Richard and Kahlan’s story unfolds over ten more novels, collectively known as the Sword of Truth series, concluding with CONFESSOR in 2007. Executive Producer Sam Raimi (director of the three Spider-Man movies), in collaboration with Disney/ABC, is creating a 22-episode adaptation of the book to be filmed in New Zealand. It is now being developed as one of the most ambitious television miniseries of all time. It still sells more than 100,000 copies a year there and has gone on to bestsellerdom in the United Kingdom and in more than twenty foreign translations as well as audiobook form. Wizard’s First Rule, the first novel by Terry Goodkind, was a phenomenon from the moment it was published by Tor Books in 1994, selling over a million copies in North America alone. Their tears and triumphs have touched my heart. The good people at Tor, one and all, for their enthusiasm and hard work.Īnd two very special people, Richard and Kahlan, for choosing me to tell their story.
My editor, James Frenkel, not only for his exceptional editorial talent, guidance, and improvements in this book, but also for his boundless good humor and patience at teaching me to be a better author along the way.
My agent, Russell Galen, for having the guts to be the first to pick up the sword and making my dreams reality. My good friends, Rachel Kahlandt and Gloria Avner, for taking on the task of reading the raw manuscript and offering valuable insights, and for their steadfast belief in me when I needed it most. My father, Leo, for never once telling me to read, but instead reading himself, and thus infecting me with curiosity. (Oct.I would like to thank some special people: Even so, the many readers who have traveled this far in the series should wander happily through this addition. Goodkind's prose sometimes lags, but his ingenuity rarely does (his magical-traveling sliph is a gem), though the roles he assigns to women sometimes languish at the level of pop-feminism. Sundry subplots involving the wizard Zedd and other well-drawn characters fill out the book. To stop this pestilence, Richard must find the long-lost Temple of the Winds and in order to do that, he and Kahlan must forswear their love and each marry another. The schemes go far beyond mere invasion or assassination: their centerpiece is a magically spread plague that brings hideous death, particularly to children. The evil Emperor Jagang is not dead, after all, but is still scheming against Richard Cypher, bearer of the Sword, and against Richard's betrothed, Kahlan Amnell, the Mother Confessor. The fourth entry in Goodkind's Sword of Truth fantasy saga opens only weeks after the close of Blood of the Fold (1996).
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