BookshelfThe Shadow of the TorturerGene Wolfe
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The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy toward his victim - and follows his subsequent journey out of his home city of Nessus.
Quotes by Gene Wolfe
From WikiquoteWhen a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.
No man has a home unless he is master of a place where he must please no one—a place where he can go and lock the door behind him.
“That the environment should respond to human thought. That is the core of magic and the oldest dream of mankind.”
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