The Last Wish

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 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.

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)

Translations
The book has been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, French, Slovak and Portuguese. English translation of The Last Wish was published in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in 2007 and will be published in the United States by Orion in May 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)