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The Last Wish

Introducing the Witcher

The Witcher: Book #1

by Andrzej Sapkowski

Narrator Peter Kenny

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Translator Danusia Stok

Length 10 hours 17 minutes

Language English

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“The incredibly popular Witcher video game series is actually based off of this series of stories and novels from a Polish writer. The game designers wanted to make a game in tribute to their favorite author, and ended up reviving the books, and getting them translated into English. Which I'm really glad for. This is the first book, a collection of the short stories the character first appeared in, before embarking on his main epic adventure. It pulls thoughtfully from fairy tales, creates a wonderful, full world, with multidimensional characters. Most of all though, I am continually surprised - in a good way - by the prescient relevance to our current world, in terms of this series examination of politics, gender, bigotry, war, and discrimination. All wrapped in magical, action-packed adventure, and with a sense of humor. Many pick up these books for the games (myself included) but they deserve to be read by all who appreciate well-constructed fantasy with a purpose.”
— Jocelyn • Bookshop Santa Cruz

Summary
About the author

Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in this collection of adventures, the first chapter in Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games.

The New York Times bestselling series
Over Fifteen Million Copies Sold Worldwide
World Fantasy Award Winning Author
David Gemmell Legend Award Winning Author
Named One of the Greatest Book Series of All Time by Forbes

Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless hunter. Yet he is no ordinary killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world.

But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good . . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.

Witcher collections
The Last Wish
Sword of Destiny

Witcher novels
Blood of Elves
The Time of Contempt
Baptism of Fire
The Tower of Swallows
Lady of the Lake
Season of Storms

Hussite Trilogy
The Tower of Fools
Warriors of God

Translated from original Polish by Danusia Stok

Fiction Fantasy

Andrzej Sapkowski is the author of the Witcher series and the Hussite Trilogy. He was born in 1948 in Poland and studied economics and business, but the success of his fantasy cycle about Geralt of Rivia turned him into an international bestselling writer. Geralt’s story has inspired the hit Netflix show and multiple video games, has been translated into thirty-seven languages, and has sold millions of copies worldwide.

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Audiobook details

Author:
Andrzej Sapkowski

Narrator:
Peter Kenny

ISBN:
9781478904717

Length:
10 hours 17 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Hachette Audio

Publication date:
May 5, 2015

Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#701 Overall

Genre rank:
#179 in Fantasy

Reviews

"This is a series you can sink your teeth into."—BuzzFeed News "Delightful, intense, irreverent, and compelling....you have to read The Witcher books because they are rife with all of the elements that make you love fiction, and especially fantasy, in the first place....In a word, The Witcher delivers."—Hypable Expand reviews