Knife of Dreams
Original cover of Knife of Dreams featuring Perrin Aybara facing down Aes Sedai Galina Casban.
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| Author | Robert Jordan |
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| Cover artist | Darrell K. Sweet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Wheel of Time |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
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Tor Books (U.S.) & Orbit Books (UK) |
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Publication date
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October 11, 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 784 p. (U.S. & UK hardback edition) |
| ISBN | (U.S. hardback edition) & (UK hardback edition) |
| OCLC | 60742113 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3560.O7617 K58 2005 |
| Preceded by | Crossroads of Twilight |
| Followed by | The Gathering Storm |
Knife of Dreams (abbreviated as KoD by fans) is the 11th novel in the fantasy series The Wheel of Time by American author Robert Jordan. It was published by Tor Books in the U.S. and Orbit in the UK and released on October 11, 2005. Upon its release, it immediately rose to the #1 position on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list, making it the fourth consecutive Wheel of Time book to reach the #1 position on that list. Knife of Dreams is 784 pages long, including a glossary. It has a prologue, 37 chapters, and an epilogue.
The prologue to Knife of Dreams, entitled "Embers Falling on Dry Grass", was sold by the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster as an ebook on July 22, 2005, three months before the publication of the book itself.
Part of the prologue was first made available in the paperback edition of New Spring (released on June 13, 2005); upon the release of the full prologue as an eBook, this partial excerpt was made available online at [1].
Additionally, a promotion at Amazon.com allowed those who preordered Knife of Dreams from August 10 to October 10, 2005 to immediately download at no additional cost the first chapter of the book, entitled "When Last Sounds".
The opening epigram of the book is:
"The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams. — From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin"
This volume of The Wheel of Time depicts several distinct plots. Unusual Trolloc attacks, the dead walking, ripples in the fabric of the world and other events seem to indicate that the Last Battle is drawing near; several characters using different evidence confidently state that Tarmon Gai'don is close at hand.
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