title: The Measure of the Magic: Legends of Shannara (Pre-Shannara: Legends of Shannara)
author:  Terry Brooks 
description: Immensely entertaining . . . a page-turner full of action and magic.Bookreporter <br /> <br /> Classic Terry Brooks . . . infused with details of Shannaras legends.Fantasy Faction<br /> <br /> [Brooks is] the most important fantasy writer since J.R.R. Tolkien.<i>Rocky Mountain News</i><br /> <i></i><br /> Foolproof for fantasy lovers.<i>Library Journal</i>
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  _The Measure of the Magic_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,
  and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or
  dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2011 by Terry Brooks
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House
  Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
  
  
  DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of
  Random House, Inc.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  Brooks, Terry.  
  The measure of the magic : legends of Shannara / Terry Brooks.  
  p. cm.  
  eISBN: 978-0-345-52921-3  
  1\. Shannara (Imaginary place)—Fiction. I. Title.  
  PS3552.R6596M43 2011  
  813′.54—dc22 2011014440
  
  
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