Inheritance
core novel 2011 The Inheritance Cycle
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.17 (319,807 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 849 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780375846311 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Inheritance Cycle
- Series: The Inheritance Cycle core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Christopher Paolini
Notes
- From the series record (The Inheritance Cycle): A farm boy in the land of Alagaesia finds a dragon egg and is drawn into a rebellion against the tyrant king Galbatorix; the original quartet, self-published by the author in 2002 before Knopf's 2003 edition.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Inheritance Cycle: position 4 of 4: previous Brisingr (2008)
- Internal chronology, within The Inheritance Cycle: position 4 of 5: previous Brisingr (2008) · next Murtagh (2023)
Sources
← The Inheritance Cycle dossier · All universes
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