Larger	The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, Bk 1) Author: Robert Jordan
	Book Information Publisher: Tor Books Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 65 Rating: 36 ISBN-13: 9780312850098 - ISBN-10: 0312850093 Publication Date: 1/15/1990 Pages: 688 Book Reviews

In the THE EYE OF THE WORLD three young friends: Rand al'Thor, Matrim Cauthorn (Mat) and Perrin Aybara are attacked by subhuman monsters, bestial Trollocs. With the help of Lady Moiraine, an Aes Sedai, a woman who can wield the One Power and her Warder, Lan--the young boys flee their homeland. But they are pursued relentlessly by the forces of the evil Dark One--and begin an adventure across an imaginative, fantastical world of strange wonders and deadly horror--where goodness stands on the brink of destruction--for the Wheel of Time is weaving a web in the pattern of ages, a web to entangle the world.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, when the World and Time themselves hang in the balance, a wind rises in the mountains of mist...

...and Rand al'Thor is cold. Though the spring festival of Bel Tine comes tomorrow, it is a year without spring, a year when green things fail and hope is dying. It is a year of strangers; it is a world where nothing is what it seems. It is a time for prophecies to be fulfilled. It is a time when Time itself may die, when the Eye of the World may be blinded. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.