An edition of A Game of Thrones (1996)

A Game of Thrones

Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire

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An edition of A Game of Thrones (1996)

A Game of Thrones

Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire

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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (601 ratings) ·
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In the game of thrones, you win or you die

As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must ... and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty. The old gods have no power in the south. Stark's family is split and there is treachery at court. Worse a vengeance-mad boy has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities beyond the sea. Heir of the mad Dragon King deposed by Robert, he claims the Iron Throne.
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English

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Action & Adventure, American Fantasy fiction, Betrayal, Bien y mal, Civil war, Courts and courtiers, Dragons, Epic, epic fantasy, epic fiction, epic literature, fantastic fiction, fantasy, fantasy fiction, Ficción, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fiction, fantasy, general, good and evil, Guerras imaginarias, Hugo Award Winner, Ignotus Award winner, imaginary places, imaginary wars and battles, Invierno, kings and rulers, Locus Award winner, magic, New York Times bestseller, nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2011-09-10, Science Fiction, seasons, Voyages and travels, winter, Trial by combat, walls, penal colonies, wights, folk healers, persistent vegetative states, Seven kingdoms (imaginary place), fiction, Seven kingdoms (Imaginary place), Coloring books, Kings and rulers -- Fiction, Civil war -- Fiction, Spanish fiction

People

Illyrio, Jon Arryn, Robert Baratheon, Eddard Stark, Sansa Stark Joffrey Stark, Lysa Stark, Cersei Lannister, Bran Stark, Jaime Lannister, Peter Baelish, Tyrion Lannister, Bronn, Others, wildlings, Jon Snow, Benjen Stark, Samwell Tarly, Jeor Mormont, Viserys, Daenerys, Khal Drogo, Dothraki, Jorah Mormont, Viserys Targaryen, Rhaegar Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen, Stannis Baratheon, Renly Baratheon, Joffrey Baratheon, Myrcella Baratheon, Tommen Baratheon, Catelyn Stark, Robb Stark, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Brandon Stark, Rickard Stark, Tywin Lannister, Kevan Lannister, Lysa Arryn

Places

Winterfell, King's Landing, Seven Kingdoms, Westeros, Sunset Lands

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Published in
London
Series
A song of ice and fire, part 1
Copyright Date
1996

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PR60111.O58

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
835 p.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7259157M
ISBN 10
000647988X
ISBN 13
9780006479888
OCLC/WorldCat
69955320, 846914588, 971870620
British National Bibliography
GBA113387
British Library
BLL01009375120
National Library of Sweden (Libris)
4465450
Library Thing
8366
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58407723

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A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award. The novella Blood of the Dragon, comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella. In January 2011, the novel became a New York Times Bestseller and reached No. 1 on the list in July 2011.

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