Fool’s Fate. Робин Хобб

      

       Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2003

      Copyright © Robin Hobb 2003

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      Source ISBN: 9780007588978

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007370467

      Version: 2018-11-09

       Dedication

      To Pi.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

       Map

Prologue: Battling Fate

One: Lizards

Two: Sons

Three: Trepidation

Four: An Exchange of Weapons

Five: Departures

Six: Voyage of Dreams

Seven: Voyage

Eight: The Hetgurd

Nine: Mothershouse

Ten: The Narcheska

       Eleven: Wuislington

       Twelve: Cousins

       Thirteen: Aslevjal

       Fourteen: The Black Man

       Fifteen: Civil

       Sixteen: Elfbark

       Seventeen: Icefyre

       Eighteen: Ice

       Nineteen: Below the Ice

       Twenty: Corridors

       Twenty-One: In the Realm of the Pale Woman

       Twenty-Two: Reunion

       Twenty-Three: Mind of a Dragon

       Twenty-Four: Tintaglia’s Command

       Twenty-Five: Dragons

       Twenty-Six: Healings

       Twenty-Seven: Doors

       Twenty-Eight: Catalyst

       Twenty-Nine: Feathers in a Fool’s Cap

       Thirty: Whole

       Thirty-One: Dragon’s Head

       Thirty-Two: Through Stones

       Thirty-Three: Family

       Thirty-Four: Commitments

       Thirty-Five: Resumption