Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings the?<i>New York Times?</i>bestselling Inheritance Cycle about the dragon rider Eragon?has sold over 35 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation.<br><br><br>Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm   boyuntil his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient  sword a loyal dragon and sage advice from an old storyteller Eragon is soon swept  into a dangerous tapestry of magic glory and power. Now his choices could saveor  destroythe Empire.<br><br> A New York Times Bestseller<br><br> A USA Today Bestseller<br><br> A Wall  Street Journal Bestseller<br><br> A Book Sense Bestseller</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Here's a great big fantasy that you can pull over your head like a comfy old sweater and disappear into for a whole weekend. Christopher Paolini began <I>Eragon</I> when he was just 15 and the book shows the influence of Tolkien of course but also Terry Brooks Anne McCaffrey and perhaps even Wagner in its traditional quest structure and the generally agreed-upon nature of dwarves?? elves?? dragons?? and heroic warfare with magic swords. <p>  Eragon?? a young farm boy?? finds a marvelous blue stone in a mystical mountain place. Before he can trade it for food to get his family through the hard winter?? it hatches a beautiful sapphire-blue dragon?? a race thought to be extinct. Eragon bonds with the dragon?? and when his family is killed by the marauding Ra'zac?? he discovers that he is the last of the Dragon Riders?? fated to play a decisive par