Thomas Covenant Books In Order

Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant Books In Publication Order

  1. Lord Foul’s Bane (1977)
  2. The Illearth War (1977)
  3. The Power That Preserves (1977)
  4. Gilden-Fire (1981)

Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant Books In Chronological Order

  1. Lord Foul’s Bane (1977)
  2. The Illearth War (1977)
  3. Gilden-Fire (1981)
  4. The Power That Preserves (1977)

The Second Chronicles: Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Books In Publication Order

  1. The Wounded Land (1980)
  2. The One Tree (1982)
  3. White Gold Wielder (1983)

Last Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant Books In Publication Order

  1. The Runes of the Earth (2004)
  2. Fatal Revenant (2007)
  3. Against All Things Ending (2010)
  4. The Last Dark (2013)

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Thomas Covenant Books Overview

Lord Foul’s Bane

The first book in one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever. He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet he was tempted to believe, to fight for the Land, to be the reincarnation of its greatest hero…
. THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVERBook One: Lord Foul’s BaneBook Two: THE ILLEARTH WARBook Three: THE POWER THAT PRESERVESFrom the Paperback edition.

The Illearth War

The second volume in the epic Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Thomas Covenant found himself once again summoned to the Land. The Council of Lords needed him to move against Foul the Despiser who held the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power. But although Thomas Covenant held the legendary ring, he didn’t know how to use its strength, and risked losing everything…
. From the Paperback edition.

The Power That Preserves

‘A trilogy of remarkable scope and sophistication.’LOS ANGELES TIMESTwice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange other world where magic worked. Twice before he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land. Now he was back. This time the Lords of Revelstone were desperate. Without hope, Covenant set out to confront the might of the enemy, as Lord Foul grew more powerful with every defeat for the Land…
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The Wounded Land

Four thousand years have passed since Covenant first freed the Land from the devastating grip of Lord Foul and his minions. But he is back, and Convenant, armed with his stunning white gold magic, must battle the evil forces and his own despair…
. THE SECOND CHRONICLE OF THOMAS COVENANTBook OneThe Wounded LandBook TwoTHE ONE TREEBook ThreeWHITE GOLD WIELDER

The One Tree

Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery begin their search for The One Tree that is to be the salvation of the Land. Only he could find the answer and forge a new Staff of Law but fate decreed that the journey was to be long, the quest arduous, and quite possibly a failure…
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White Gold Wielder

Thomas Covenant knew that despite his failure on the Isle of The One Tree, he had to return to the Land and fight. After a long and arduous journey, fighting all the way, he readies himself for the final showdown with Lord Foul, the Despiser, and begins to understand things he had only just wondered about before…
. From the Paperback edition.

The Runes of the Earth

The triumphant return of the New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed fantasy series that has become a modern classic. Since their publication more than two decades ago, the initial six books in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series have sold more than 6 million copies and have been published in ten countries around the world. Now, starting with The Runes of the Earth, Stephen R. Donaldson returns with a quartet of new Covenant novels that are certain to satisfy his millions of fans, and attract countless new followers. In the original series, a man living in our world and in our time is mysteriously struck down with a disease long since believed to have been eradicated. He becomes a pariah in his small town and is abandoned by his wife who departs with their infant son. Alone and despairing, Thomas Covenant falls and, while unconscious, is transported to a fantastic world in which a battle for the soul of the land is being waged. Christened ‘The Unbeliever’ for he is convinced the world is only an illusion, a dream he finds himself slowly forced to accept the role that seems to be his destiny: savior of the Land. At the end of the sixth book, Covenant is killed, both in the real world and in the Land, as his companion, Linden Avery, looks on in horror. His death is both the ultimate sacrifice and his redemption. At the opening of The Runes of Earth, ten years have passed. Linden Avery comes home one day to find her child building images of the Land with blocks, and senses a terrible foreboding. She had thought that she would never again be summoned to the Land nor ever again see her beloved Thomas Covenant. But in the Land, evil is unmaking the very laws of nature…
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Fatal Revenant

The long awaited sequel to The Runes of the Earth returns readers to the Land and opens with the reunion of Linden Avery and Thomas Covenant!

Linden Avery, who loved Thomas Covenant and watched him die, has returned to the Land in search of her kidnapped son, Jeremiah. As Fatal Revenant begins, Linden watches from the battlements of Revelstone when the impossible happens riding ahead of the hordes attacking Revelstone are Jeremiah and Covenant himself, apparently very much alive.

Here in the Land, Jeremiah is healed of the mental condition that had kept him mute and unresponsive for so many years. He is full of life, and devoted to Covenant. But Covenant is strangely changed. Sarcastic and bragging, he no longer seems like the man whom Linden adored. And yet he says he has a plan: he will take her and Jeremiah to a place where they can find a pure source of Earthpower and, after he has achieved his own purposes, Linden will be free to use that great power to go home, to take Jeremiah home, or to do anything else she sees fit. Even though she distrusts the seemingly different man he has now become, how can she make any choice except to follow him?

Their journey will cover unimaginable distances through the Land even through time itself and will test Linden’s courage again and again. In the end, fulfilling her destiny will call for a terrible leap of faith: Can she give up everything she thought had been restored to her, for the sake of the Land?

Against All Things Ending

Desperate for help to find her adopted son, Jeremiah, Linden Avery has resurrected Thomas Covenant in a cataclysmic exertion of Earthpower and wild magic. But the consequences of her efforts are more terrible than she could have imagined. Sorcery on that scale has awakened the Worm of the World’s End: the ultimate end of all Time, and therefore of all life, has been set in motion. And on a more personal level, the results are no less extreme. The stress of reincarnation so many centuries after his death has fractured Covenant’s mind. He cannot tell Linden where to find her son. And his leprosy has renewed its grip on him, inexorably killing his nerves. The Ranyhyn had tried to warn her. Now, plunged to depths of desperation and despair for which she is entirely unprepared, Linden seeks radical responses to the dilemmas she has created. Searching for Jeremiah, and accompanied only by a few friends and allies some of them unwilling she takes chances that threaten her sanity, forcing her to confront the Land’s most fearsome secrets. Dreadful futures hinge on all of her choices, and she and her companions are driven beyond the limits of their endurance. Yet she still walks paths laid out for her by the Despiser, and his forces are ready…