The Last Wish
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For the book found within The Witcher computer game, see: The Last Wish (in game).
The Last Wish (Polish: Ostatnie życzenie) is the first book in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series in terms of internal chronology, although the original Polish edition was published in 1993, after The Sword of Destiny. Some of the individual short stories were first published in the Fantastyka magazine or in the Wiedźmin short story collection (the first collection of Sapkowski's stories, out of print and now obsolete; all short stories were later collected in The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny and Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna) and as such were the first witcher stories published.
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[edit] Stories included
The anthology employs the story within a story framework and contains 7 main short stories.
Geralt, after having been injured in battle, rests in a temple of Melitele in Ellander. During that time he has flashbacks to recent events in his life - each of which forms a story of its own.
- The Voice of Reason (Głos rozsądku, framing story)
- The Witcher (Wiedźmin)
- A Grain of Truth (Ziarno prawdy)
- The Lesser Evil (Mniejsze zło)
- A Question of Price (Kwestia ceny)
- The Edge of the World (Kraniec świata)
- The Last Wish (Ostatnie życzenie)
[edit] Translations
The book has been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
The Last Wish was the first of the Witcher's stories to be translated in English. The Last Wish was published in the United Kingdom by Gollancz [1] in 2007 and in the United States by Orbit in April 2008.
- Bulgarian: Вещерът. Последното желание (ИнфоДар, 2008)
- Czech: Zaklínač I - Poslední přání (Leonardo, 1999)
- English: The Last Wish, translated by Danusia Stok (UK - Gollancz, 2007, US - Orbit, 2008)
- French: Le Dernier Vœu (2003)
- German: Der letzte Wunsch
- Lithuanian: Paskutinis noras (Eridanas, 2005)
- Polish: Ostatnie życzenie (SuperNOWA, 1993)
- Portugese: O Último Desejo (Livros do Brasil, 2005)
- Russian: Последнее желание
- Spanish: El último deseo, translated by Jose María Faraldo (Bibliópolis fantástica, 2002)
[edit] Gallery
[edit] Polish editions
 First softcover edition |
 Second softcover edition |
 Third softcover edition |
 Hardcover edition (together with Miecz przeznaczenia) |
[edit] English editions
UK hardcover and trade paperback edition (2007) |
 UK mass market paperback edition (2008) |
US edition (2008) |
[edit] Bulgarian edition
 Bulgarian edition (2008) |
[edit] Czech edition
 Czech edition |
[edit] French editions
 French edition (2003) |
 French edition (2005) |
 French edition (2008) |
[edit] German editions
 First German edition |
 Second German edition |
[edit] Lithuanian edition
 Collected edition of both The Last Wish and Miecz przeznaczenia |
[edit] Portugese edition
 Portugese edition |
[edit] Russian edition
 Collected together with Miecz przeznaczenia |
[edit] Spanish edition
 Spanish edition |
| The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski | |
| Short story collections | |
|---|---|
| Wiedźmin (obsolete) | The Last Wish | Miecz przeznaczenia (The Sword of Destiny) | Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna | |
| Novels | |
| Krew elfów (Blood of the Elves) | Czas pogardy (The Time of Disdain) | Chrzest ognia (Baptism by Fire) | Wieża Jaskółki (The Swallow's Tower) | Pani Jeziora (The Lady of the Lake) | |
| Adaptations | |
| Wiedźmin (graphic novels) | The Hexer (movie and TV series) | Wiedźmin: Gra Wyobraźni (PnP RPG) | The Witcher (computer game) | |
