The Elfstones of Shannara

Terry Brooks

Random House Publishing Group, Oct 10, 2000 - Fiction

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic.

Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the most fearsome of all Demons. And Wil is without power to control them....

What people are saying

Review: Elfstones Of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy #2)

User Review  - Bill Tracy - Goodreads

I listened to this on audiobook, Fortunately, the narrator spoke so slowly I could crank the speed up to 2x and not really lose anything. Also fortunate, because the book is terrible and I got through ...

Review: Elfstones Of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy #2)

User Review  - Clint - Goodreads

Probably Brook's best writing in the Shannara series. Again, good for young readers who want to get into this genre.

About the author

A writer since high school, Terry Brooks published his first novel, The Sword of Shannara, in 1977. It was a New York Times bestseller for more than five months. He has published seventeen consecutive bestsellers since, including The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch and the novel based upon the screenplay and story by George Lucas: Star Wars®: Episode I The Phantom Menace™. His novels Running with the Demon and A Knight of the Word were each selected by the Rocky Mountain News as one of the best science fiction/ fantasy novels of the twentieth century.

The author was a practicing attorney for many years but now writes full-time. He lives with his wife, Judine, in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.

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Bibliographic information

• Title: The Elfstones of Shannara; Shannara trilogy, Terry Brooks
• Author: Terry Brooks
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2000
• ISBN: 0345444612, 9780345444615
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General