The One Tree
- 479
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The One Tree” takes Thomas Covenant away from the Land and out to sea, in an emotionally searching middle volume of the second trilogy. Stephen R. Donaldson digs into his characters’ darker feelings as deeply as into the quest itself, and some readers find more in it with every reread. It belongs after the earlier Covenant books and leads straight into “White Gold Wielder”.
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About the book
The One Tree is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the second book of the second trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. It is followed by White Gold Wielder. This book differs from the others in the First and Second Chronicles, in that the story takes place outside of the Land, although still in the same world.
Reading order · The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Full order & progress →- Lord Foul's BaneStart here
7.27.2 / 10 - The Illearth War
7.97.9 / 10 - The Power that Preserves
8.08.0 / 10 - The Wounded Land
7.97.9 / 10 - The One TreeThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - White Gold Wielder
7.97.9 / 10 - The Runes of the Earth
–Not ranked yet - Fatal Revenant
–Not ranked yet - Against All Things Ending
–Not ranked yet - The Last Dark
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 73 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.0 | 8 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 65 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is The One Tree?
It has 479 pages — shorter than 61% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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