Nine Princes in Amber
- 188
- Pages
- about 3.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Nine Princes in Amber” is a short, wildly imaginative fantasy about brothers fighting for the throne of the one true world. Some readers find it most gripping early on, while the setting is still being pieced together alongside the narrator, Corwin. Some struggle with the clipped prose, and some feel that major events are merely summarised and the magic improvised. The first of ten volumes, for lovers of the strange.
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About the book
Nine Princes in Amber is a fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, the first in the Chronicles of Amber series. It was first published in 1970, and it later spawned a computer game with the same name. The first edition of the novel is unusually rare; the publisher pulped a significant part of the original print run in error when an order was issued to destroy the remaining copies of Zelazny's older book Creatures of Light and Darkness.
Reading order · The Chronicles of Amber
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 420 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 74% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 38 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 382 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Nine Princes in Amber?
It has 188 pages — shorter than 98% of the ranked books in Classics.
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