


He is still isolated from society, but he has come to terms with that and with the other mental and physical consequences of his leprosy. After his experiences in the Land, Thomas Covenant has resumed his career as a writer. Ten years have passed since the end of the first Chronicles. The book is dedicated to Lester del Rey with the cryptic appendation: "Lester made me do it." Donaldson has explained on his website that del Rey, his editor-publisher, was the "King of Sequels" and pestered Donaldson incessantly with ideas for a follow up to the first trilogy, all of which were quite bad, to the extent that Donaldson was driven to conceive workable ideas for both the second and third trilogies. Donaldson, the first book of the second trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series.

The Wounded Land is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R.
