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The Sword of the Lictor

Gene Wolfe

Severian, the disgraced apprentice torturer, has reached his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms, where he must take up his post as Lictor, executioner and torturer. However, he flees the city and heads into the mountains, to meet the mysterious Dr Talos.

GenresFiction in EnglishAmerican writersTexts

302 pages

English edition · First published 1982 by Arrow · ISBN 9780099295402

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