The Shadow of What Was Lost
James Islington
The Licanius Trilogy, Book 1 of 3
Twenty years after a war the Gifted lost, the last of them live under strict terms at a remote school. When one of the students is about to face the test that decides the rest of his life, he leaves. The first book of a trilogy. This description stays spoiler free and names only the starting point.

The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington is listed here in 4 editions. The edition shown here has 54 chapters. Book clubs agree on chapters and never on pages, because every edition counts differently.
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- 54chaptersThe Shadow of What Was LostOrbit, 2017Die Originalausgabe.ENPaperback
- 54chaptersDas Erbe der SeherKnaur Taschenbuch, 2017. Translated by Ruggero LeòDEPaperback
- 54chaptersDas Erbe der SeherKnaur eBook, 2017. Translated by Ruggero LeòDEEbook
- 54chaptersThe shadow of what was lost, Buch eins der Licanius-Trilogieadrian und wimmelbuchverlag, 2026Deutscher Text trotz englischem Titel. Die Kapitelzahl ist belegt, aber nicht, an welcher Stelle im Buch die Kapitel beginnen: die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek nennt zu dieser Ausgabe keine übersetzende Person, und ohne sie lassen sich die Kapitelanfänge der Knaur-Ausgaben nicht übertragen.DEPaperback
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