{"product_id":"9780006483496_the-rivan-codex","title":"The Rivan Codex","description":"\u003cp\u003eComprising the ancient texts of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, The Rivan Codex is a book which stands in the same relationship to the Belgariad and Malloreon as The Silmarillion does to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore David Eddings started to write his first fantasy series, the BELGARIAD, in the late 1970s, he spent a year working on the design and mythology of the fantasy world in which it is set.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rivan Codex comprises the immensely readable background material to Eddings’ best-loved series, repeated information a lot of it, but it’s the books that repeat the information, and these seminal documents have about them an air of original inspiration, world-building in action. The rest of it is background which is taken for granted but not spelled out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory, geography, myths and folktales, peoples, gods, customs, social organization, political hierarchy, laws, dress, modes of address, produce, culture, flora, fauna, all presented with so light a touch one can only yearn for Eddings to be taken up by academics so that his style might catch on in the real real world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 12-book long series grew out of these delightful preliminary sketches like a river growing from a spring of striking purity and constancy. Magically, the information reads fresh each time, minimal Eddings prose, beguilingly arcane, in which massive events attain an all-time perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Eddings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895210889365,"sku":"9780006483496","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780006483496_19b9c74a-7914-4e46-b717-add58dfcb7a4.jpg?v=1776888530","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780006483496_the-rivan-codex","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}