HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.
A STORM OF SWORDS: STEEL AND SNOW is the FIRST part of the third volume in the series.
Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast.
The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud. In the northern wastes, a horde of hungry, savage people steeped in the dark magic of the wilderness is poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown. And Robb’s defences are ranged against the South, the land of the cunning and cruel Lannisters, who have his younger sisters in their power.
Throughout Westeros, the war for the Iron Throne rages more fiercely than ever, but if the Wall is breached, no king will live to claim it.
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Джордж Р. Р. Мартин. A Storm of Swords
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Praise for A Song of Ice and Fire:
Dedication
A NOTE ON CHRONOLOGY
MAPS
PROLOGUE
JAIME
CATELYN
ARYA
TYRION
DAVOS
SANSA
JON
DAENERYS
BRAN
DAVOS
JAIME
TYRION
ARYA
CATELYN
JON
SANSA
ARYA
SAMWELL
TYRION
CATELYN
JAIME
ARYA
DAENERYS
BRAN
DAVOS
JON
DAENERYS
SANSA
ARYA
JON
JAIME
TYRION
SAMWELL
ARYA
CATELYN
DAVOS
JAIME
TYRION
ARYA
BRAN
JON
APPENDIX. THE KINGS AND THEIR COURTS
THE KING ON THE IRON THRONE
THE KING IN THE NORTH THE KING OF THE TRIDENT
THE KING IN THE NARROW SEA
THE QUEEN ACROSS THE WATER
KING OF THE ISLES AND THE NORTH
OTHER HOUSES GREAT AND SMALL
HOUSE ARRYN
HOUSE FLORENT
HOUSE FREY
HOUSE LANNISTER
HOUSE MARTELL
HOUSE TULLY
HOUSE TYRELL
REBELS, ROGUES, AND SWORN BROTHERS
THE SWORN BROTHERS OF THE NIGHT’S WATCH
THE BROTHERHOOD WITHOUT BANNERS AN OUTLAW FELLOWSHIP
THE WILDLINGS, OR THE FREE FOLK
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
About the Author
By George R.R. Martin
About the Publisher
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A Song of Ice and Fire is told through the eyes of characters who are sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles apart from one another. Some chapters cover a day, some only an hour; others might span a fortnight, a month, half a year. With such a structure, the narrative cannot be strictly sequential; sometimes important things are happening simultaneously, a thousand leagues apart.
In the case of the volume now in hand, the reader should realize that the opening chapters of A Storm of Swords do not follow the closing chapters of A Clash of Kings so much as overlap them. I open with a look at some of the things that were happening on the Fist of the First Men, at Riverrun, Harrenhal, and on the Trident while the Battle of the Blackwater was being fought at King’s Landing, and during its aftermath…
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The wind was rising as the shadows lengthened. It made a high thin sound as it shivered through the stones of the ringwall. “I hate that sound,” little Giant said. “It sounds like a babe in the brush, wailing away for milk.”
When he finished the circuit and returned to the dogs, he found Lark waiting for him. “The officers are in the Old Bear’s tent again, talking something fierce.”
