description: According to a 1996 New York Times article, "Robert Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal." Robert Jordan is hands-down the most widely read and talked-about fantasy author writing today. His mammoth, multivolume New York Times bestselling Wheel of Time series has sold more millions of copies to date. Book One of the Wheel of Time is The Eye of the World, a staggeringly complex and enjoyable adventure that's not without its own cast of unforgettable characters: Rand, a simple sheepherder who is stalked by an evil he does not yet understand; Egwene, Rand's love interest, who happens to possess her own very special gift; Moraine, the beautiful but possibly dangerous member of a powerful legion of sorceresses called Aes Sedai; and Lan, Moraine's fearless companion and guardian.
  
  --Andrew LeCount

language: English
title: The Eye of the World
titlecomplete: The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
characters: Rand al'Thor, Moiraine Damodred, Padan Fain, Elyas Machera, Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere, Tam al'Thor, Ba'alzamon, Al'Lan Mandragoran, Thom Merrilin, Matrim Cauthon, Nynaeve al'Meara, Loial
genres: Adventure, Epic, Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Fiction, Magic
ratings_count: 511282
places: Emond's Field, Two Rivers, Caemlyn, Andor, Shadar Logoth, The Blight
series: The Wheel of Time
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Book, awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Best Female Narrator
publisher: Books on Tape, Inc.