From TheBestLinks.com
(Redirected from
Thomas Covenant)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a six-book fantasy epic by Stephen R. Donaldson, one of the first works of Tolkien-inspired fantasy.
The work is centered around the bearer of a white gold ring that possesses magical qualities. Thomas Covenant experiences life in two worlds, a modern American one and another that he wakes up to after suffering an impact from an automobile in the street. What makes this story compelling and appropriate for readers 12 years and older, is how Covenant deals with leprosy. This semi-contagious disease attacks and erodes skin, muscle tissue and bone and can lead to gangrene. He is shunned by his community as unclean and is an outcast. A major side-effect leprosy brings to Covenant is impotence. This fact becomes greatly important as Donaldson's story develops and Covenant, after the traumatic incident with the car that struck him while crossing the street, wakes to find himself in another realm of existence where he does not have leprosy and is regarded as a figure out of legend to the new world's inhabitants. He possesses a white gold wedding band from his failed marriage: in this new realm the ring is regarded as magical. Eventually he discovers that without leprosy he is also no longer impotent. This newfound vigor causes many interesting twists in the saga.
Through subsequent traumatic occurrences Covenant finds himself instantly back-and-forth between the reality of modern America and his magical realm. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant are followed by The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
Related links
Top visited
0 of
0 links
[no links posted yet]
>> place link >>
Discussion
Last posted
0 of
0 messages
[no messages posted yet]
>> post message >>
Watch
You can
add this article to your own "watchlist" and receive e-mail notification about all changes in this page.
