 First edition (US) | |
| Author | Robin Hobb |
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| Cover artist | Michael Whelan |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Farseer Trilogy |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Spectra (US) Voyager Books (UK) |
Publication date | 1 April 1995 (US) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback & Hardback in the UK, Paperback in the US) |
| Pages | 400 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-00-224606-6 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 60223865 |
| Followed by | Royal Assassin |
Assassin's Apprentice is a fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, the first book in The Farseer Trilogy. It was Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden's first book under this pseudonym, and was published in 1995. The book was written under the working title Chivalry’s Bastard.[1]
The novel covers the early life of FitzChivalry, a royal bastard living in Buckkeep Castle as he begins his training as an assassin and successfully safeguards the throne from his over-ambitious uncle Regal, almost at the cost of his life. The stories of characters found in the Farseer Trilogy continue in the Tawny Man Trilogy and the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy. Other series, The Liveship Traders and The Rain Wild Chronicles, are set in the same world and in the same timeframe, with some crossover.
- ^ "25 Years of Spectra: Assassin's Apprentice (1995) Robin Hobb". Suvudu. Retrieved February 27, 2014.