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Loading... The Eyes of the Dragon (original 1987; edition 1987)by Stephen KingIn the kingdom of Delain, a young prince must struggle against powerful forces to gain his rightful inheritance. 5 alternates | English | Primary description for language | Description provided by Bowker | score: 232 Fiction.
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HTML:"It is just not possible to stop turning the pages" (The Washington Post) of this bestselling classic talean epic fantasy as only #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King could envision it. Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons... ?Thus begins one of the most unique tales that master storyteller Stephen King has ever writtena sprawling fantasy of dark magic and the struggle for absolute power that utterly transforms the destinies of two brothers born into royalty. Through this enthralling masterpiece of mythical adventure, intrigue, and terror, you will thrill to this unforgettable narrative filled with relentless, wicked enchantment, and the most terrible of secrets... 35 alternates | English | score: 131 Fiction.
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HTML: A kingdom is in turmoil after old King Roland dies and his worthy successor, Prince Peter, is imprisoned by the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. But Flagg's evil plot is not perfect, for he knows naught of Thomas' terrible secretor Prince Peter's daring plan to escape and claim what is rightfully his. A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it. Stephen King has taken the classic fairy tale and transformed it into a masterpiece of fiction for the ages. .26 alternates | English | score: 125 A kingdom is in turmoil after old King Roland dies and his worthy successor, Prince Peter, is imprisoned by the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. But Flagg's evil plot is not perfect, for he knows naught of Thomas' terrible secret-- or Prince Peter's daring plan to escape to claim what is rightfully his. 10 alternates | English | score: 42 After Flagg, the evil court magician, sees a mouse chance upon a grain of dragon sand behind Prince Peter's shelves and die--as did the king--in fire and smoke, he plots to imprison Peter in the Needle and seize control of the kingdom. 6 alternates | English | score: 31 A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies and his successor must do battle for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would be rival, Prince Peter makes a daring escape and rallies the forces of Good to fight for what is rightfully his. 3 alternates | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 14 The Kingdom of Delain is at stake when King Roland is murdered and his son and rightful heir, Peter, is framed for the crime. Plotting against him is the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. Yet with every plan there are holes--like Thomas's terrible secret. And the determined Prince Peter, who is planning a daring escape from his imprisonment. 3 alternates | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 13 A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. While the land of Delain mourns, the evil wizard Flagg hatches an unscrupulous plot which sees the King's eldest son Peter imprisoned for his father's murder, and the youngest son inherit the throne. Only Peter knows the truth about his own innocence and the evil that is Flagg. Only Peter can save Delain from the horror that Flagg has in store. But first, he must escape from the high tower... 1 alternate | English | score: 6 Ein einfallsreiches, deftig erzähltes Fantasy-Märchen über den Kampf um die Vorherrschaft im Königreich Delain.. 3 alternates | English | score: 4 The king is dead, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. But while the land of Delain mourns, the magician Flagg, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the king's oldest son Peter is imprisoned at the top of a high tower, the Needle, for his father's murder, while his younger brother Thomas inherits the throne. Only Peter knows the truth of his own innocence, and the truth of the evil that is Flagg. And only Peter can save Delain from the horror Flagg has in store. He has a plan, but it is dangerous and desperate and if he fails there will be no second chance. And all the while, Flagg's words echo in his mind: 'I'll carry your head on my saddle-bag horn for a thousand years. Here I come, Peter! Coming for your head! English | score: 4 The number-one "New York Times" bestselling prequel to King's Dark Tower series is available again with a beautiful new package and black-and-white artwork by David Palladini. Reissue. English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 3 While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's elder son, Peter, is imprisoned in the needle, the top of a high tower, for his father's murder. And Thomas inherits the throne. Only Peter knows the truth of his innocence, and the true evil that is Flagg. Only Peter can save Delain from the horror the magician has in store. He has a plan, but it is rife with danger. And if he fails, he won't get a second chance . . . A captivating tale of heroic adventure, of dragons and princes, of mysterious mice and men from the pen of the master storyteller.There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Daily Express as 'a fabulous teller of stories', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. The King is dead, murdered by an unusual poison. English | score: 3 Fantasy.
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HTML: February 1, 1987 English | score: 3 Stephen King presents an epic tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures of dragons, princes, and evil wizards. Here, a kingdom is in turmoil after King Roland dies and Prince Peter, his worthy successor, battles for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would-be rival, the prince makes a daring escape and rallies the forces of good to fight for what is rightfully his. English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 3 Everyone in the kingdom talked about the King-in-waiting, Roland's elder son, Peter. And one man thought and planned and brooded on something else: how to make sure that Roland's younger son, Thomas, should be crowned King instead.The King is dead, murdered by an unusual poison. While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's elder son, Peter, is imprisoned in the needle, the top of a high tower, for his father's murder. And Thomas inherits the throne.Only Peter knows the truth of his innocence, and the true evil that is Flagg. Only Peter can save Delain from the horror the magician has in store. He has a plan, but it is rife with danger. And if he fails, he won't get a second chance ...A captivating tale of heroic adventure, of dragons and princes, of mysterious mice and men from the pen of the master storyteller. 1 alternate | English | score: 3 Unabridged CDs, 9 CDs, 11 hours Read by TBA A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards-here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it. . English | score: 2 A horror fantasy featuring dragons, princes, evil wizards, an enchanted castle, and a terrible secret. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations. 1 alternate | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 2 In the kingdom of Delain, a young prince must struggle against powerful forces to gain his rightful inheritance.
Review from Kirkus: Featuring 21 charming illustrations by David Palladini, this is an adventure fantasy for young adults - or very old prepubescents - and among King's most accomplished works (though readers who groan at King's unremitting vulgarity in his adult novels will again have a few quarrels to pick). Prince Peter, 17, is the elder son of Roland, beer-drinking king of Delain who had managed to stay unwed until 50. Father Roland's not much for sex and manages it only about six times a year, with the aid of an aphrodisiac from court magician Flagg - despite the fact that his Queen Sasha was only 17 when he married her. Roland is renowned for having killed a dragon with his famed arrow Foe-Hammer and eaten its nine-chambered heart, which keeps his heroic aspect alive under his beer fat. After Sasha dies giving birth to their second son Thomas, the demonic magician Flagg, who is apparently 400 or more years old, desires chaos in the kingdom and fears that young Prince Peter, when crowned king, will bring good sense instead; and so Flagg wants the inferior, bumbling, manipulable second son Thomas to be king. With this aim in mind, he poisons King Roland with dragon sand, blames the murder on Peter, and has him imprisoned in the 300-foot-tall prison called the Needle. The boy Thomas is crowned, but becomes a winebibber and beer drinker and as round-gutted as his father. During his five years in the tower, Peter has his mother's fabulous doll-house to play with, but is secretly spinning an escape rope with threads from dinner napkins he weaves on the small doll-house loom. What Flagg does not know is that Thomas, hidden in a secret passage and looking into his father's room through the eyes of the stuffed dragon's head on the wall, saw Flagg give the king the poisoned wine. And so the time comes when Foe-Hammer must again be brought to bear on the dragon. But which brother can actually slay Flagg? Some of King's smoothest writing and slickest effects, with the usual supercosmic horror scaled down to reasonably familiar villainy. English | score: 2 The destinies of two boys born into royalty is transformed forever in the midst of dark magic and the struggle for absolute power, and in the quest to cover up a terrible secret. English | score: 2 In the kingdom of Delain, a young prince must struggle against powerful forces to gain his rightful inheritance.
In the kingdom of Delain, a young prince must struggle against powerful forces to gain his rightful inheritance. English | score: 2 While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's elder son, Peter, is imprisoned in the needle, the top of a high tower, for his father's murder. And Thomas inherits the throne. Only Peter knows the truth of his innocence, and the true evil that is Flagg. Only Peter can save Delain from the horror the magician has in store. He has a plan, but it is rife with danger. And if he fails, he won't get a second chance ... English | score: 1 The king is dead, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. But while the land of Delain mourns, the magician Flagg plots. Soon the only person who can save Delain from the horror Flagg has in store is imprisoned at the top of a high tower. English | score: 1 Flagg, an evil court magician, frames Prince Peter for the death of his father, King Roland. While Peter is imprisoned, Flagg takes over the kingdom by influencing Peter's younger brother, Prince Thomas, who is now reluctantly king by default English | score: 1 A fantasy of heroic adventure set in the kingdom of Delain. It involves a king who is poisoned, a young and beautiful queen, a prince locked in a high tower while his younger brother assumes the throne, and an evil magician who harbours terrible secrets and malevolent plans. English | score: 1 A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it. He has taken the classic fairy tale and transformed into a masterpiece of fiction. English | score: 1 A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards--as only Stephen King can tell it!. English | score: 1 A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. 3 alternates | English | score: 1 Once upon a time--there was terror and dragons and princes...evil wizards and dark dungeons...an enchanted castle and a terrible secret. With this enthralling masterpiece of magical evil and daring adventure, Stephen King takes you in his icy grip and leads you into the most shivery and irresistible kingdom of wickedness... English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 1 Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons ... A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. While the land of Delain mourns, the evil wizard Flagg, hatches an unscrupulous plot which sees the King's eldest son Peter imprisoned for his father's murder, and the youngest son inherit the throne. English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 1 Fiction.
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"The sorcery of Stephen King...is expertly seductive....The kind of book that keeps you up, red-eyed with fatigue, until two a.m. because it's not possible to stop turning the pages.".
HTML: February 1, 1987 A kingdom is in turmoil after old King Roland dies and his worthy successor, Prince Peter, is imprisoned by the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. But Flagg's evil plot is not perfect, for he knows naught of Thomas' terrible secretor Prince Peter's daring plan to escape and claim what is rightfully his. A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it. Stephen King has taken the classic fairy tale and transformed it into a masterpiece of fiction for the ages. .English | score: 1 "Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons...."Thus begins one of the most unique tales that master storyteller Stephen King has ever written--a sprawling fantasy of dark magic and the struggle for absolute power that utterly transforms the destinies of two brothers born into royalty. Through this enthralling masterpiece of mythical adventure, intrigue, and terror, you will thrill to this unforgettable narrative filled with relentless, wicked enchantment, and the most terrible of secrets.... English | score: 1 Neubearb.: Christina Brombach - Peter, ältester Sohn und Thronfolger des Königs von Delain, soll bald die Herrschaft im Königreich übernehmen. Doch Flagg, ein einflussreicher Magier, hat andere Pläne: Mit einem Zauberelexier ermordet er den König und lässt Peter für das Verbrechen in den Kerker werfen. Thomas, der jüngere Sohn des Königs, der als einziger Zeuge die Unschuld des Bruders beweisen könnte, ist nur eine willenlose Marionette des grausamen Magiers. Das blinde Wüten Flaggs scheint nicht mehr aufzuhalten zu sein ... German | Primary description for language | score: 1 Fantastisk fortælling om den tapre prins Peter, der må gå så gruelig meget ondt igennem, før han overvinder den onde troldmand Flagg, som kun ønsker kaos og død over kongeriget Delain. Danish | Primary description for language | Description provided by Bowker | score: 4 Depuis quatre sic?les, Flagg le magicien hante le Royaume de Delain. Conseiller du trn?e, dans l'ombre, il manipule le pouvoir. la mort du roi Roland, son fils Peter, brave et courageux, doit lui succ?er. Cela pourrait contrarier les sombres projets de Flagg: plonger le Royaume dans le chaos. Une terrible machination se met alors en route, au prix de l'honneur d'un homme... Mais au Royaume de Delain, le triomphe du mal n'est pas une fatalit.?. French | Primary description for language | score: 2 L'ombre de Flagg plane depuis quatre siècles sur le royaume de Delain... Le jour où la silhouette du sinistre magicien se glisse derrière le trône du roi Roland, c'est en vue d'accomplir son noir dessein : assurer le triomphe du mal. La machination se met en marche, vénéneuse comme le poison. Mais c'est compter sans une antique maison de poupée, quelques milliers de serviettes de table, les yeux d'un vieux dragon empaillé et, bien sûr, le courage de ceux qui refusent la tyrannie. [Source : 4e de couv.] French | score: 1 
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