Jordan wrote the first eleven books in the series: The Eye of the World(1990), The Great Hunt (1990), The Dragon Reborn (1991), The Shadow Rising (1992), The Fires of Heaven (1993), Lord of Chaos (1994), A Crown of Swords (1996), T he Path of Daggers (1998), Winter’s Heart (2000), Crossroads of Twilight (2003) and Knife of Dreams (2005). The Eye of the World cover by Darrell K Sweet The Eye of the World was later published as two separate books to target the young adult market: From the Two Rivers and To the Blight, in 2002. The hardcover and paperback quickly sold through the initial 40,000 print run. Robert Jordan (pen name for James Oliver Rigney, Jr.) began writing the first novel, The Eye of the World, in 1984, and it was published on January 15th, 1990.
Partly inspired by Tolstoy’s War and Peace, each book is a lengthy tome that also includes elements of European and Asian mythology. Although it was originally planned as a six-book series, Robert Jordan’s epic The Wheel of Time series grew to fourteen expansive novels published from 1990 through 2013, extending years after Jordan’s death.
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