Sword of truth
Author
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The hero is Richard-the-Seeker, a woodsman with a magic sword. One day in his forest he rescues a woman pursued by assassins. She turns out to be Kahlan Amnell from the neighboring kingdom of Midlands who is seeking a wizard named Zedd to help her destroy the tyrant ruling her kingdom. Richard takes her to him and the novel is the story of their joint adventure. A first novel.
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"Armed with the Sword of Truth, Richard Cypher, now become Richard Rahl, must learn to control his own newfound power, or the world will spin into darkness unending. The Sisters of Light promise help. While Richard journeys to their forbidden city, his beloved Kahlan sets out for Ayindril, citadel of the old wizards, in search of Zedd and the help only he can lend. War, suffering, torture, and deceit lie in their paths. So, also, does their destiny..."...
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"Armed with the Sword of Truth, Richard Cypher, now become Richard Rahl, must learn to control his own newfound power, or the world will spin into darkness unending. The Sisters of Light promise help. While Richard journeys to their forbidden city, his beloved Kahlan sets out for Ayindril, citadel of the old wizards, in search of Zedd and the help only he can lend. War, suffering, torture, and deceit lie in their paths. So, also, does their destiny..."...
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume 4
Publisher
Tor Fantasy
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
On the red moon will come the firestorm... Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D'Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims. To quench the inferno, he must seek remedy in the wind... To fight it Richard and his beloved Kahlan Amnell...
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume 5
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Seeker of the Truth Richard Rahl battles so-called chimes, beings capable of stealing souls, who threaten to destroy the world by absorbing its magic. By the author of Temple of the Winds.
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet in Faith of the Fallen, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy. Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads into the Old World with Cara,...
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume 7
Publisher
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Jennsen seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. With winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves...
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume Prequel
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A poor peasant named Abby seeks to win the aid of First Wizard Zedd to save her community.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A prequel to the Sword of Truth series follows the experiences of Magda Searus, who is shunned by her community members when she makes unsettling discoveries about her powerful husband's suicide and ventures out into a war-stricken world.