Shadow & Claw

Gene Wolfe

Fantasy / Science Fiction

Shadow & Claw

Name: Shadow & Claw
Rating: 4.04 (23359 reviews)
Author: Gene Wolfe
ISBN: 9781857989779

by Gene Wolfe

4.04 · 23,359 (Goodreads)—· 528 p· 1983

Literary CanonCult Favourite20th Century Classicmysteriousdarkphilosophicalhauntingadventurousreflective

Overview

About

Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the first two books of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. It chronicles the life and adventures of journeyman torturer Severian.

Part of a series

The Book of the New Sun

Vol. I · 5 of 11 volumes

VOL 1

The Shadow of the Torturer

VOL 1

Book of the New Sun

VOL 1

Shadow & Claw

VOL 1

Shadow and Claw

VOL 2

The claw of the conciliator

VOL 2

The Fifth Head Of Cerberus

VOL 3

The Sword of the Lictor

III

The Sword of the Lictor

VOL 3

Sword & citadel

III

Sword & citadel

VOL 4

The Citadel of the Autarch

VOL 4

Urth of the New Sun

VOL 5

The Urth of the new sun

6 more volumes

Pages

528

Sidgwick & Jackson

Linguistic complexity

5/5

Very Dense

Thematic complexity

5/5

Profound

Rating

4.04

23,359 ratings

Rating

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Reader feel

Worldbuilding

Prose

Narration

Unreliable Narrator

Mythic Allegory

Plot twists

Emotional depth

Pacing

My journey

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Shadow & Claw

by Gene Wolfe

4.04 · 23,359 ratings (Goodreads)— · —· 528 pages· 1983

Literary CanonCult Favourite20th Century Classicmysteriousdarkphilosophicalhauntingadventurousreflective

Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the first two books of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. It chronicles the life and adventures of journeyman torturer Severian.

Pages

528

Sidgwick & Jackson

Linguistic complexity

5/5

Very Dense

Thematic complexity

5/5

Profound

Rating

4.04

23,359 ratings