Seven Stones

This is a magisterial work of rivalry and romance, loyalty and treachery, friendship and malice, quiet heroism and subhuman vileness. Wolf weaves a luminous tapestry, intimating without reproducing themes of Homer''s Odyssey, Marlowe''s Dr. Faustus and Tolkien''s The Lord of the Rings. The trials and transformation of common dwarves into hardened heroes, the corrupting lust for power, and the as...