Cleric Quintet Collector's Edition (Forgotten Realms: the Cleric Quintet) [Hardcover]

R. A. Salvatore (Author)

Book Description

Series: Forgotten Realms: the Cleric Quintet | Publication Date: January 1, 1999

New York Times best-selling author R. A. Salvatore's beloved Cleric Quintet novels, now in a trade paperback.

R.A. Salvatore's Cleric Quintet tells the story of the scholar-priest Cadderly, plucked from the halls of the Edificant Library to fulfill a heroic quest: to stop the chaos curse unleashed upon Faêrun.

This one-volume collection includes all five of the original Cleric Quintet novels--Canticle, In Sylvan Shadows, Night Masks, The Fallen Fortress, and The Chaos Curse--complete and unabridged, with an introduction by the author. The Cleric Quintet is the prequel to R.A. Salvatore's best-selling novel, The Ghost King.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Salvatore shows . . . intelligence in using the classic elements, a pleasant dry wit and a narrative gift."-- Publishers Weekly

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

As one of the fantasy genre's most successful authors, R.A. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best seller lists and have sold more than ten million copies. Salvatore's first published novel, The Crystal Shard in 1988, became the first volume of the acclaimed Icewind Dale Trilogy and introduced an enormously popular character, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden. Since that time, Salvatore has published numerous novels for each of his signature multi-volume series. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1036 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; Collectors edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786913134
• ISBN-13: 978-0786913138
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

R.A. Salvatore has spent so many years winding himself into fantasy worlds that he's still trying to figure out how to unwind. He is the author of more than forty novels and more than a dozen New York Times best sellers, including The Two Swords, which debuted at or near the top of many best seller lists.

Customer Reviews

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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun and exciting read, February 9, 2002

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D. Pachal (WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cleric Quintet Collector's Edition [Forgotten Realms] (Paperback)

I read this set of books about 3 times, that is how good they are. I also read them before i had ever heard of Drizzt, and i loved them everytime i read them. Now all of the 5 wonderful books are in a convenient collectors edition. There is a wonderful set of hero's in these books, all of them with their strengths or weaknesses. Cadderly, the main hero, must face his weaknesses just like all the others. Salvatore does a good job portraying the characters, proving that they are not "godlike characters". They must face powers in these books that they can never hope to defeat? or can they? These books are filled with fun and excitement all the way through. Two dwarven brothers, a beautiful monk woman, and a chattering squirrel make up the cast of good heros through most of the books. All of the books are uniquely different, throwing different bad guys against the heros until the final books when they must face an ultimate evil. These books are definately some of Salvatore's best. I highly recommend them if you are a fan of Drizzt, or Salvatore. You might recognize some of the characters in these books if you have read the later books in the Drizzt series.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An absorbing read., March 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cleric Quintet Collector's Edition (Forgotten Realms: the Cleric Quintet) (Hardcover)

Having never before read a book categorized within this genre I came upon R.A. Salvatore's The Cleric Quintet as I became engrossed in a Computer RPG named Baldurs Gate. Baldurs Gate introduced me into the world of the Forgotten Realms and when I happened upon The Cleric Quintet at my local book store I felt a want to know more about the stories and characters that have been developed around The Forgotten Realms. What I found within the Cleric Quintet were five books that offered very deep character development, fascinating plot and story lines centering around friendship, loyalty, love and conflicts from many an angle whose resolutions for the most part were far from predictable. Though not for every one ( I don't think my 70 yr old father-in-law would enjoy it), I would have to recommend The Cleric Quintet to anyone that would like to escape the day to day nuisances of real world events and pressures and absorb themselves into a world of heroes, magic and fantasy. As I read The Cleric Quintet I found myself so absorbed in Mr. Salvatore's narrative that the world around me became one of priests, dwares, elves, fortresses and forests while I read. I could not give this book 5 stars however because at times I felt that some of battle sequences were unnecessarily elongated in some places and too redundant in others as if the author was writing to fill pages. But on the whole I felt that The Cleric Quintet was certainly worth my time. I have indeed become an R.A. Salvatore fan and have ordered The Icewind Dale and Dark Elf triolgies as I write this. My favorite of the books was Night Masks as I found the concept around which the plot was built to be brillantly conceived and and brilliantly resolved. My favorite of the charaters was amazingly enough not the main character Cadderly, but his loyal "weapons" the Bouldershoulder brothers, two dwarves that anyone would want to take home with them. I was so "enchanted" with their exploits that during my many commuter bus rides while reading I found it very difficult to not laugh out loud, and just sat in my seat with a HUGE smile on my face. Besides its humorous elements though, The Cleric Quintet does take you on many an emotional roller coaster and in the end I found myself wanting more. In the end The Cleric Quintet is far from "Tuanta Quiro Miancay". An excellent read.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than last time., January 11, 2000

By 

Armand Gustavson (Tønsberg, Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cleric Quintet Collector's Edition (Forgotten Realms: the Cleric Quintet) (Hardcover)

The first thing I read from Salvatore's pen was the Dark Elf Trilogy. I was stunned, and deeply in love after the first few pages. I had allready played AD&D for some time, so I knew about Drizzt, but getting to know him like this was fantastic. No book could ever match this, or so I thought. The Cleric Quintet does it! I have found myself reading at 5 o'clock in the morning in spite of the alarm ringing at 8. The relation between the Bouldershoulder brothers is great, the love between Danica and Cadderly grips you, the battle scenes astonishes you, but most of all, it is the magic. When cadderly reached deep into the song of Deneir and felt as if he was one with his God, shivers went down my back. Even larger shivers than when Elminster met Mystra (in making of a mage). To all the fans of Salvatore: Do yourself a favour, read it and get to know, and love even more of salvatores great charcters!