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Title Page
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The Sword of the Lictor

I - Master of the House of Chains
II - Upon the Cataract
III - Outside the Jacal
IV - In the Bartizan of the Vincula
V - Cyriaca
VI - The Library of the Citadel
VII - Attractions
VIII - Upon the Cliff
IX - The Salamander
X - Lead
XI - The Hand of the Past
XII - Following the Flood
XIII - Into the Mountains
XIV - The Widow’s House
XV - He Is Ahead of You!
XVI - The Alzabo
XVII - The Sword of the Lictor
XVIII - Severian and Severian
XIX - The Tale of the Boy Called Frog

Part I Early Summer and Her Son
Part II How Frog Found a New Mother
Part III The Black Killer’s Gold
Part IV The Plowing of the Fish

XX - The Circle of the Sorcerers
XXI - The Duel of Magic
XXII - The Skirts of the Mountain
XXIII - The Cursed Town
XXIV - The Corpse
XXV - Typhon and Piaton
XXVI - The Eyes of the World
XXVII - On High Paths
XXVIII - The Hetman’s Dinner
XXIX - The Hetman’s Boat
XXX - Natrium
XXXI - The People of the Lake
XXXII - To the Castle
XXXIII - Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus
XXXIV - Masks
XXXV - The Signal
XXXVI - The Fight in the Bailey
XXXVII - Terminus Est
XXXVIII - The Claw
Appendix - A Note on Provincial Administration

The Citadel of the Autarch

I - The Dead Soldier
II - The Living Soldier
III - Through Dust
IV - Fever
V - The Lazaret
VI - Miles, Foila, Melito, and Hallvard
VII - Hallvard’s Story—The Two Sealers
VIII - The Pelerine
IX - Melito’s Story—The Cock, the Angel, and the Eagle
X - Ava
XI - Loyal to the Group of Seventeen’s Story—The Just Man
XII - Winnoc
XIII - Foila’s Story—The Armiger’s Daughter
XIV - Mannea
XV - The Last House
XVI - The Anchorite
XVII - Ragnarok—The Final Winter
XVIII - Foila’s Request
XIX - Guasacht
XX - Patrol
XXI - Deployment
XXII - Battle
XXIII - The Pelagic Argosy Sights Land
XXIV - The Flier
XXV - The Mercy of Agia
XXVI - Above the Jungle
XXVII - Before Vodalus
XXVIII - On the March
XXIX - Autarch of the Commonwealth
XXX - The Corridors of Time
XXXI - The Sand Garden
XXXII - The Samru
XXXIII - The Citadel of the Autarch
XXXIV - The Key to the Universe
XXXV - Father Inire’s Letter
XXXVI - Of Bad Gold and Burning
XXXVII - Across the River Again
XXXVIII - Resurrection
Appendix - The Arms of the Autarch and the Ships of the Hierodules

By Gene Wolfe from Tom Doherty Associates

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