Volume 5 of 8 · Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
The Swords of Lankhmar
- 224
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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About the book
The Swords of Lankhmar is a fantasy novel, first published 1968, by Fritz Leiber, featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It is chronologically the fifth volume of the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters. The book is an expansion of Leiber's earlier novella "Scylla's Daughter", which was published originally in the magazine Fantastic Stories of Imagination for May 1961. The full novel first published in paperback format during 1968 by Ace Books company, which reprinted the title numerous times through 1986; a later paperback edition was issued by Dark Horse (2008). It has been published in the United Kingdom by Mayflower Books (1970) and Grafton. The first hardcover edition was issued by Rupert Hart-Davis during June 1969; a later hardcover edition was issued by Gregg Press during December 1977. The book has also been gathered together with others in the series into various omnibus editions; Swords' Masters (1990), Return to Lankhmar (1997), and The Second Book of Lankhmar (2001).
Reading order · Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Full order & progress →- Swords and DeviltryStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - Swords Against Death
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–Not ranked yet - Swords Against Wizardry
–Not ranked yet - The Swords of LankhmarThis book
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