About the book: 1997 / An unremarkable American, Thomas Covenant, falls ill with leprosy and becomes an outcast. The familiar world turns away from him. And then a new world opens up to him, the reality of which he refuses to believe, believing that this Country is only his painful delirium. One way or another, the Country needs his help... “The Lord’s Curse” is the first novel in Stephen Donaldson’s famous series “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.” The release of this novel made a real revolution in the fantasy genre. Western critics call “Chronicles...” the second most important cycle after “The Lord of the Rings”, which shaped the appearance of modern fairy-tale fiction.