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A Game of Thrones

Book One of A Song of Fire and Ice

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An edition of A Game of Thrones (1996)

A Game of Thrones

Book One of A Song of Fire and Ice

Bantam paperback ed. (1)

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (608 ratings) ·
  • 7,427 Want to read
  • 532 Currently reading
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In A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin has created a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantansy fans everywhere.

In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes of the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
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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

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

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US / CAN Edition

Published in
New York, USA
Series
Song of Ice and Fire (1)
Copyright Date
1997

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54 22
Library of Congress
PS3563.A7239 G36 2005

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
835p.
Number of pages
864
Dimensions
6.8 x 4.2 x 1.6 inches
Weight
8.8 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7829767M
ISBN 10
0553573403
ISBN 13
9780553573404
OCLC/WorldCat
440938280
Alibris ID
9780553573404
Google
CIzuyAEACAAJ
Canadian National Library Archive
36721174
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0553573403
Library Thing
8366
Goodreads
32987965

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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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