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    The Eyes of the Overworld
    The Eyes of the Overworld
    The Eyes of the Overworld
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Eyes of the Overworld

    Written by Jack Vance

    Narrated by Arthur Morey

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    About this audiobook

    The Eyes of the Overworld is the first of Vance’s picaresque novels about the scoundrel Cugel. Here he is sent by a magician he has wronged to a distant unknown country to retrieve magical lenses that reveal the Overworld. Conniving to steal the lenses, he escapes and, goaded by a homesick monster magically attached to his liver, starts to find his way home to Almery. The journey takes him across trackless mountains, wastelands, and seas. Through cunning and dumb luck, the relentless Cugel survives one catastrophe after another, fighting off bandits, ghosts, and ghouls—stealing, lying, and cheating without insight or remorse leaving only wreckage behind.

    Betrayed and betraying, he joins a cult group on a pilgrimage, crosses the Silver Desert as his comrades die one by one and, escaping the Rat People, obtains a spell that returns him home. There, thanks to incompetence and arrogance he misspeaks the words of a purloined spell and transports himself back to the same dismal place he began his journey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 9, 2010
    ISBN9781441814654
    The Eyes of the Overworld
    Author

    Jack Vance

    Jack Vance (richtiger Name: John Holbrook Vance) wurde am 28. August 1916 in San Francisco geboren. Er war eines der fünf Kinder von Charles Albert und Edith (Hoefler) Vance. Vance wuchs in Kalifornien auf und besuchte dort die University of California in Berkeley, wo er Bergbau, Physik und Journalismus studierte. Während des 2. Weltkriegs befuhr er die See als Matrose der US-Handelsmarine. 1946 heiratete er Norma Ingold; 1961 wurde ihr Sohn John geboren. Er arbeitete in vielen Berufen und Aushilfsjobs, bevor er Ende der 1960er Jahre hauptberuflich Schriftsteller wurde. Seine erste Kurzgeschichte, »The World-Thinker« (»Der Welten-Denker«) erschien 1945. Sein erstes Buch, »The Dying Earth« (»Die sterbende Erde«), wurde 1950 veröffentlicht. Zu Vances Hobbys gehörten Reisen, Musik und Töpferei – Themen, die sich mehr oder weniger ausgeprägt in seinen Geschichten finden. Seine Autobiografie, »This Is Me, Jack Vance! (»Gestatten, Jack Vance!«), von 2009 war das letzte von ihm geschriebene Buch. Jack Vance starb am 26. Mai 2013 in Oakland.

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