The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the
Unbeliever, by Stephen Donaldson, deal with a reluctant hero, Thomas Covenant, a leper who
is sucked into a fantasy world, the Land, where only he can halt the
relentless rise of Lord Foul and his minions. What makes the books
interesting is the vision, the refusal of the main character to act out
his role, and the sense of loss as one after another of the good guys
fall.
The original trilogy (Lord
Foul's Bane,
The
Illearth War ,
The
Power That Preserves) has been collected into a single volume,
The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever are set some
four hundred years after the first trilogy, with the Land once again
threatened. This time Thomas Covenant believes in himself, but finds
that the rules of the world have changed, and he must adapt if he is to
save the Land. Again published originally as a trilogy (The
Wounded Land ,
The
One Tree,
White
Gold Wielder), the books have been collected into a single volume,
The
Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.