Winter's Heart
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LC Class PS3560.O7617 W55 2000 | | |
| Preceded by | The Path of Daggers | |
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| Followed by | Crossroads of Twilight | |
Winter's Heart is a
bestseller list, making it the second Wheel of Time book to reach the #1 position on that list. It remained on the list for the next two months. Winter's Heart consists of a prologue and 35 chapters
.
The book's title is a reference to the increasing coldness of
Dark One's manipulation of the climate
.
Winter's Heart was the first Wheel of Time book for which the prologue, entitled "Snow", was first sold as an ebook in advance of the physical release of the book. "Snow" was released by the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster in September 2000, two months before the publication of Winter's Heart.
Plot summary
Many of the events of Winter's Heart take place simultaneously with the events of the next book, Elayne Trakand attempts to suppress rebellious nobles.
Daughter of the Nine Moons
, referring to Tuon herself, kidnaps her during his and his men's escape from the city.
Dark One
's influence. In the process, both Shadar Logoth, the access key to the female Choedan Kal, and the female Choedan Kal itself are destroyed.
Release details
- 2000, U.S., Tor Books (ISBN 0-312-86425-6), Pub date November 7, 2000, hardcover (First edition)
- 2000, UK, Orbit (ISBN 1-85723-984-9), Pub date November 9, 2000, hardcover
- 2001, U.S., Tor Books (ISBN 0-312-87775-7), Pub date February ?, 2001, hardcover
- 2001, UK, Orbit (ISBN 1-84149-071-7), Pub date November 1, 2001, paperback
- 2002, U.S., Tor Books (ISBN 0-8125-7558-X), Pub date January ?, 2002, paperback
- 2003, U.S., Rebound by Sagebrush (ISBN 0-613-61150-0), Pub date July ?, 2003, hardcover (Library binding)
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