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The Last Wish

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For the book found within The Witcher computer game, see: The Last Wish (in game).

Cover of the American edition
Cover of the British edition

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.

Contents

[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.

[edit] Translations

The book has been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese, in addition to English.

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, translated by Евгений Вайсброт (АСТ, 1996)
  • Spanish: El último deseo, translated by Jose María Faraldo (Bibliópolis fantástica, 2002)

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[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

Вещерът. Кръвта на Елфите
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

Spanish edition, Alamut



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 (Something Ends, Something Begins)
Novels
Blood of Elves | Times of Contempt | Chrzest Ognia (Baptism by Fire) | Wieża Jaskółki (The Tower of the Swallow) | Pani Jeziora (The Lady of the Lake)
Adaptations
Wiedźmin (graphic novels) | The Hexer (movie & TV series) | Wiedźmin: Gra Wyobraźni (PnP RPG) | The Witcher (video game) | The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (video game)
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