The Wheel of Time · Book 11

New Spring

Published
1 January 2004
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9781593973780
Type
novel
Cover of New Spring

About this book

New Spring is the shortest book in this list at 336 pages, a 2004 prequel telling the story of Moiraine and Lan roughly twenty years before The Eye of the World. Longtime fans generally advise reading it only after the first few main novels, since it lands better once you already know who Moiraine and Lan are and why their choices matter.

Key facts about New Spring

New Spring is a novel by Robert Jordan. Readers have had it since 1 January 2004. It runs to 336 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of New Spring. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781593973780 to find the main one.

New Spring is book 11 of 15 in The Wheel of Time series. The series has 15 published books. However, the series starts with The Eye of the World (1990). A Memory of Light is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 8 January 2013.

Additionally, Robert Jordan writes The Fallon Trilogy and Conan: The Robert Jordan Novels as separate series. Those series sit on our historical fiction, sword and sorcery and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Warrior of the Altaii is the latest published Robert Jordan book on file, from 2019.

About Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney Jr., a decorated Vietnam veteran — two tours as a U.S. Army helicopter gunner, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star with V for valor, among other honors — before he became one of epic fantasy's most influential writers. See every Robert Jordan book in order.

Its place in The Wheel of Time

New Spring is book 11 in the The Wheel of Time series. It follows Crossroads of Twilight. It is followed by Knife of Dreams. See the full The Wheel of Time reading order.

In the Third Age, the Wheel of Time turns and ages come and pass, but the Dragon is bound to be reborn to save the world — or break it. Robert Jordan's fourteen-volume epic follows Rand al'Thor, a sheepherder from the Two Rivers, as his quiet life is shattered by Trollocs, Aes Sedai, and the growing, terrifying suspicion that he is the prophesied Dragon Reborn, doomed to fight the Dark One at the Last Battle even if it means going mad and destroying everyone he loves. Around him, his childhood friends Mat Cauthon…

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