About the book

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and

incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are

used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or

persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Original text copyright © 1993 by Andrzej Sapkowski

English translation copyright © 2007 by Danusia Stok

Excerpt from Ores copyright © 1999 by Stan Nicholls

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S.

Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be

reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any

means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without the

prior written permission of the publisher.

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First eBook Edition: May 2008

ISBN: 978-0-316-05508-6