The Wounded Land

The Wounded Land
First edition cover
AuthorStephen R. Donaldson
Cover artistDarrell K. Sweet
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
GenreFantasy
PublisherDel Rey
Publication date
1980
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages497
ISBN978-0-345-28647-5
OCLC5353176
Preceded byThe Power that Preserves 
Followed byThe One Tree 

The Wounded Land is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the first book of the second trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. It is followed by The One Tree.

The book is dedicated to Lester del Rey with the cryptic appendation: "Lester made me do it." Donaldson has explained on his website that del Rey, his editor-publisher, was the "King of Sequels" and pestered Donaldson incessantly with ideas for a follow-up to the first trilogy, all of which were quite bad, to the extent that Donaldson was driven to conceive workable ideas for both the second and third trilogies.[1]