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The Eyes of the Overworld is the to begin Vance’s picaresque novels about the scoundrel Cugel. Here he is sent with a magician he has wronged to a faraway unknown country to get magical lens that show the Overworld. Conniving to take the lens, he escapes and, goaded with a homesick monster magically mounted on his liver, starts off to find his way home to Almery. The voyage takes him across trackless mountains, wastelands, and seas. Through cunning and dumb fortune, the relentless Cugel survives one catastrophe after another, fighting off bandits, ghosts, and ghouls—stealing, lying down, and cheating without information or remorse leaving only wreckage behind. Betrayed and betraying, he joins a cult group on the pilgrimage, crosses the Silver Desert as his comrades expire one at a time and, escaping the Rat People, obtains a spell that results him home. There, because of incompetence and arrogance he misspeaks the words of an purloined spell and transports himself back to the same dismal place he began his journey.
