 First edition cover | |
| Author | Stephen R. Donaldson |
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| Cover artist | Darrell K. Sweet |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Del Rey |
Publication date | 1980 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 497 |
| ISBN | 978-0-345-28647-5 |
| OCLC | 5353176 |
| Preceded by | The Power that Preserves |
| Followed by | The One Tree |
The Wounded Land is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the first book of the second trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. It is followed by The One Tree.
The book is dedicated to Lester del Rey with the cryptic appendation: "Lester made me do it." Donaldson has explained on his website that del Rey, his editor-publisher, was the "King of Sequels" and pestered Donaldson incessantly with ideas for a follow-up to the first trilogy, all of which were quite bad, to the extent that Donaldson was driven to conceive workable ideas for both the second and third trilogies. [1]