Which is why when Alvin finally ventured forth from Vigor Church, there was plenty of folks with an eye for strangers carrying bundles about the size of a plowshare, looking for a glint of gold under burlap, measuring strangers to see if they might be a certain run-off prentice smith who stole his master’s inheritance. Some of those folks even meant to take it back to Makepeace Smith in Hatrack River, if it happened they ever laid their hands upon the golden plow. On the other hand, with some of those folks such a thought never crossed their minds.

  “If you miss this series, you will be forever consigned to the Outer Darkness of the culturally illiterate. Worse yet, you will miss the experience that will bring joy and warmth to your heart, pain to your soul, and breadth to your sense of the world. Go ahead. Accuse me of hyperbole. I confess cheerfully. And I repeat: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a major work.”

  —Tom Easton, Analog

  “A significant recasting in fantasy terms of all the tall tales of America.”

  —The Washington Post Book World

  “A tribute to the art of storytelling. Highly recommended.”

  —Library Journal

  “Card’s imagination allows him to create …a marvelous blending of fairy-tale elements with a theological romance reminiscent of C.S. Lewis.”

  —West Coast Review of Books

  “History, legend, magic, dreams: Card stirs them into a rich brew with a remarkably authentic flavor.”

  —Locus

  Tor Books is proud to present the third book in the Tales of Alvin Maker series by Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner Orson Scott Card.

  This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.

  PRENTICE ALVIN

  Copyright © 1989 by Orson Scott Card

  All rights reserved.

  A Tor Book

  Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

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  Tor is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates. LLC.

  eISBN 978-1-4299-6471-5

  First eBook Edition : October 2011

  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 88-39927

  First Edition: February 1989

  First Mass Market Edition: December 1989

 

 

  Orson Scott Card, Prentice Alvin

 

 

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