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The Name of the Wind

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Prologue - A Silence of Three Parts
1 - A Place for Demons
2 - A Beautiful Day
3 - Wood and Word
4 - Halfway to Newarre
5 - Notes
6 - The Price of Remembering
7 - Of Beginnings and the Names of Things
8 - Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
9 - Riding in the Wagon with Ben
10 - Alar and Several Stones
11 - The Binding of Iron
12 - Puzzle Pieces Fitting
13 - Interlude—Flesh with Blood Beneath
14 - The Name of the Wind
15 - Distractions and Farewells
16 - Hope
17 - Interlude—Autumn
18 - Roads to Safe Places
19 - Fingers and Strings
20 - Bloody Hands Into Stinging Fists
21 - Basement, Bread and Bucket
22 - A Time for Demons
23 - The Burning Wheel
24 - Shadows Themselves
25 - Interlude—Eager for Reasons
26 - Lanre Turned
27 - His Eyes Unveiled
28 - Tehlu’s Watchful Eye
29 - The Doors of My Mind
30 - The Broken Binding
31 - The Nature of Nobility
32 - Coppers, Cobblers and Crowds
33 - A Sea of Stars
34 - Yet to Learn
35 - A Parting of Ways
36 - Less Talents
37 - Bright-Eyed
38 - Sympathy in the Mains
39 - Enough Rope
40 - On the Horns
41 - Friend’s Blood
42 - Bloodless
43 - The Flickering Way
44 - The Burning Glass
45 - Interlude—Some Tavern Tale
46 - The Ever-Changing Wind
47 - Barbs
48 - Interlude—A Silence of a Different Kind
49 - The Nature of Wild Things
50 - Negotiations
51 - Tar and Tin
52 - Burning
53 - Slow Circles
54 - A Place to Burn
55 - Flame and Thunder
56 - Patrons, Maids and Metheglin
57 - Interlude—The Parts that Form Us
58 - Names for Beginning
59 - All This Knowing
60 - Fortune
61 - Jackass, Jackass
62 - Leaves
63 - Walking and Talking
64 - Nine in the Fire
65 - Spark
66 - Volatile
67 - A Matter of Hands
68 - The Ever-Changing Wind
69 - Wind or Women’s Fancy
70 - Signs
71 - Strange Attraction
72 - Borrorill
73 - Pegs
74 - Waystone
75 - Interlude—Obedience
76 - The Mating Habits of the Common Draccus
77 - Bluffs
78 - Poison
79 - Sweet Talk
80 - Touching Iron
81 - Pride
82 - Ash and Elm…
83 - Return
84 - A Sudden Storm
85 - Hands Against Me
86 - The Fire Itself
87 - Winter
88 - Interlude—Looking
89 - A Pleasant Afternoon
90 - Half-Built Houses
91 - Worthy of Pursuit
92 - The Music that Plays
Epilogue - A Silence of Three Parts
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 The Kingkiller Chronicle*
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The Kingkiller Chronicle*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of fantasy books by Patrick Rothfuss.  These are the talling of a tale told over three nights.

1) The Name of the Wind
2) The Wise Man's Fear
Copyright © 2007 by Patrick Rothfuss
To my mother, who taught me to love books.
Who opened the door to Narnia, Pern, and Middle Earth.

And to my father, who taught me that if I was going to do
something, I should take my time and do it right the first time.
It was night again.
May contain spoilers
It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
No comments on file
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Extract (may contain spoilers)
IT WAS WELL PAST midnight by the time Kote made it back to Newarre with Chronicler’s limp body slung across his lacerated shoulders. The town’s houses and shops were dark and silent, but the Waystone Inn was full of light.

Bast stood in the doorway, practically dancing with irritation. When he spotted the approaching figure he rushed down the street, waving a piece of paper angrily. “A note? You sneak out and leave me a note?” He hissed angrily. “What am I, some dockside whore?”

Kote turned around and shrugged Chronicler’s limp body into Bast’s arms. “I knew you would just argue with me, Bast.”

Bast held Chronicler easily in front of him. “It wasn’t even a good note. ‘If you are reading this I am probably dead.’ What sort of a note is that?”

“You weren’t supposed to find it till morning,” Kote said tiredly as they began to walk down the street to the inn.

Bast looked down at the man he was carrying, as if noticing him for the first time. “Who is this?” He shook him a little, eyeing him curiously before slinging him easily over one shoulder like a burlap sack.

“Some unlucky sod who happened to be on the road at the wrong time,” Kote said dismissively. “Don’t shake him too much. His head might be on a little loose.”

“What the hell did you sneak off for, anyway?” Bast demanded as they entered the inn. “If you’re going to leave a note it should at least tell me what—” Bast’s eyes widened as he saw Kote in the light of the inn, pale and streaked with blood and dirt.

“You can go ahead and worry if you want,” Kote said dryly. “It’s every bit as bad as it looks.”

“You went out hunting for them, didn’t you?” Bast hissed, then his eyes widened. “No. You kept a piece of the one Carter killed. I can’t believe you. You lied to me. To me!”

Kote sighed as he trudged up the stairs. “Are you upset by the lie, or the fact that you didn’t catch me at it?” he asked as he began to climb.

Bast spluttered. “I’m upset that you thought you couldn’t trust me.”

They let their conversation lapse as they opened one of the many empty rooms on the second floor, undressed Chronicler, and tucked him snugly into bed. Kote left the man’s satchel and travelsack on the floor nearby.

Closing the door to the room behind him, Kote said, “I trust you Bast, but I wanted you safe. I knew I could handle it.”

“I could have helped, Reshi.” Bast’s tone was injured. “You know I would have.”

“You can still help, Bast,” Kote said as he made his way to his room and sat heavily on the edge of his narrow bed. “I need some stitching done.” He began to unbutton his shirt. “I could do it myself. But the tops of my shoulders and my back are hard to reach.”

“Nonsense, Reshi. I’ll do it.”

Kote made a gesture to the door. “My supplies are down in the basement.”

Bast sniffed disdainfully. “I will use my own needles, thank you very much. Good honest bone. None of your nasty jagged iron things, stabbing you like little slivers of hate.” He shivered. “Stream and stone, it’s frightening how primitive you people are.” Bast bustled out of the room, leaving the door open behind him.

Kote slowly removed his shirt, grimacing and sucking his breath through his teeth as the dried blood stuck and tugged against the wounds. His face went stoic again when Bast came back into the room with a basin of water and began to clean him off.

As the dried blood was washed away a wild scoring of long, straight cuts became clear. They gaped redly against the innkeeper’s fair skin, as if he had been slashed with a barber’s razor or a piece of broken glass. There were perhaps a dozen cuts in all, most of them on the tops of his shoulders, a few across his back and along his arms. One started on the top of his head and ran down his scalp to behind his ear.

“I thought you weren’t supposed to bleed, Reshi,” Bast said. “Bloodless and all that.”

“Don’t believe everything you hear in stories, Bast. They lie to you.”

“Well you aren’t nearly as bad off as I thought,” Bast said, wiping his hands clean. “Though by all rights you should have lost a piece of your ear. Were they wounded like the one that attacked Carter?”

“Not that I could see,” Kote said.

“How many were there?”

“Five.”

“Five?” Bast said, aghast. “How many did the other fellow kill?”

 

Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 23-Feb-2023

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Nothing but the truth could break me.  What is harder than the truth?
It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things.
My father always claimed that a league wasn't really a unit of measurement at all, just a way for farmers to attach numbers to their rough guesses.

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 27-Mar-2007
DAW Books
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Date Issued:
27-Mar-2007
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Pages*:
718
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Internal ID:
13077
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ISBN:
1-101-14716-4
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978-1-101-14716-0
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United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Peter Miller - Cover Photograph
Neil Robinson - Cover Photograph
Nathan Taylor - Map
From amazon.com:

Discover #1 New York Times-bestselling Patrick Rothfuss' epic fantasy series, The Kingkiller Chronicle.

"I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss." - Lin-Manuel Miranda

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD!

DAY ONE: THE NAME OF THE WIND

My name is Kvothe.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.


So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature - the story of a hero told in his own voice. It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.
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 01-Apr-2008
DAW Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Apr-2008
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$10.99
Pages*:
722
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Internal ID:
13076
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-756-40474-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-756-40474-1
Printing:
43
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Elizabeth Glover - Book Design
Peter Miller - Cover Photograph
Neil Robinson - Cover Photograph
"It is a rare and great pleasure to find a fantasist writing... with true music in the words....  Wherever Pat Rothfuss goes... he'll carry us with him as a good singer carries us through a song."
- Ursula K. Le Guin,
bestselling author and winner
of the National Book Award

MY NAME IS KVOTHE


I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings.  I burned down the town of Trebon.  I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life.  I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in.  I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.  I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.


So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature - the story of a hero told in his own voice.  It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.


"THE NAME OF THE WIND is one of the best stories told in any medium in a decade.  [Patrick Rothfuss'] debut novel combines the intricate stories-within-stories structure of The Arabian Nights with the academic setting of the Harry Potter series, and transforms it all into a brooding, thoroughly adult meditation on how heroism went wrong....  Shelve THE NAME OF THE WIND beside The Lord of the Rings... and look forward to the day when it's mentioned in the same breath, perhaps as first among equals."  - The Onion A.V. Club

"Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous."  - Terry Brooks, 22-time New York Times bestselling author
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Forty-third printing based on the number line

Canada: $14.99

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2008Baltimore Science Fiction SocietyCompton Crook Award Nominee
2008Locus MagazineBest First Novel Nominee
2011Good ReadsFavorite Book Nominee
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