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The Sword and the Dragon
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The Wardstone Trilogy: Book 1

The Sword and the Dragon (edit title/settings)

by M. R. Mathias (Author) (edit contributors)

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Read the editorial reviews on this one, Jordan, Martin, and Hobbs, be wary. A new Fantasy Master has finally released his long written wares.... When the Royal Wizard of Westland poisons the king so that his puppet prince can take the throne and start a continental war, a young squire is... read more

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  • “"Now step aside, lest I roast you by mistake.'”
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  • “You will soar through the sky with your newfound friend.  You will save the life of one that despises you, then mourn his death.  You will help a king find a king, and you will triumph in a tower.  Someday, you will watch helplessly as one you love dearly attempts to destroy what the one that sits beside you is to become.”
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  • You’ll climb to the top of the blackest fang, and you may or may not be betrayed there.  You will find the power you long for in the depths of those heights, and you will use it to command legions.  But that will come later.  Sooner, you will want more than you came for and it will cost you your life.  You will die Gerard Skyler, but you will live again.  You will die and live again!”
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  • “If you don’t leave the table while you’re winning, then you don’t win.”
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  • “One who wants to be a king, obviously wants the title for all the wrong reasons.  No good, reasonable, or honorable man would want to have the responsibility of ruling over others.  He might accept that responsibility as his duty, but he would be wary of it, not crave it.”
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  • Kings, Queens, Heroes, & Fools
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  • (The Wardstone Trilogy Book Two)
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  • She told Mayor Parooka that it was the duty of the noble born and the wealthy to take care of those that give them station and coin, not the other way around. 
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  • “The second son of Harrap,” the woman hissed, and her head whipped towards Gerard.
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  • Falling didn’t hurt a bit.  It was the sudden stop at the end of the fall that got you.
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  • “Life is not kind, nor is it fair.”
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Gerard Skyler used his free arm to wipe the sweat from his brow before it had a chance to drip into his eyes. Scaling the towering, nesting cliff for the second time was far harder than he expected it to be. No one attempted the climb two days in a row before. His body was still sore and raw from yesterday’s climb, but he could not afford to stop and rest. He was more than three hundred feet above a rocky canyon floor. A fall would undoubtedly be fatal.

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  • Race and Racism: There is an underlying theme of race hatred between men and elves and feral half giants called the Breed. Not to mention the "skeeks." These differing peoples interactions give insight to our own racial and moral issues. And then there are the humans, who as we all know, can never be satisfied. Love, betrayal, honor, respect, romance, battle, pride, grit, cowardice..... Its all here. Oh, and Dragons, demons, hellcats, wyvern, Great Wolves, Giants, pixies, dwarves, magic, and pulse pounding battles too.
  • The Inklings: Inkling the imp, the Royal Wizard of Westland's familiar, is a direct tribute to the Oxford group the Inklings.The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.<1> The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction, and encouraged the writing of fantasy.The more regular members of the Inklings, many of them academics at the University, included J. R. R. "Tollers" Tolkien, C. S. "Jack" Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Tolkien's son Christopher, Lewis' elder brother Warren or "Warnie", Roger Lancelyn Green, Adam Fox, Hugo Dyson, R. A. "Humphrey" Havard, J. A. W. Bennett, Lord David Cecil, and Nevill Coghill. More infrequent visitors included Percy Bates, Enid Blyton, Charles Leslie Wrenn, Colin Hardie, James Dundas-Grant, John David Arnett, Jon Fromke<2>, John Wain, R. B. McCallum, Gervase Mathew, and C. E. Stevens. Guests included author E. R. Eddison and South African poet Roy Campbell.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 4 in The Wardstone Trilogy. (standard series)

Preceded by ROAR - A Wardstone Short , and followed by Kings, Queens, Heroes, & Fools.

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  1. M. R. Mathias (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Michael Robb Mathias Junior
Country: United States
Publication Date: July 24, 2010 (for original small print edition.)
ISBN: 1453862749
Page Count: 522

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