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  - sword of the lictor
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type: book
title: The Sword of the Lictor
author: Gene Wolfe
year: 1981
series: The Book of the New Sun
---
# The Sword of the Lictor

## I - Master of the House of Chains

## II - Upon the Cataract

## III - Outside the Jacal

## IV - In the Bartizan of the Vincula

## V - Cyriaca

## VI - The Library of the Citadel

## VII - Attractions

## VIII - Upon the Cliff

## IX - The Salamander

## X - Lead

## XI - The Hand of the Past

## XII - Following the Flood

## XIII - Into the Mountains

## XIV - The Widow's House

## XV - He Is Ahead of You!

## XVI - The Alzabo

## XVII - The Sword of the Lictor

## XVIII - Severian and Severian

## XIX - The Tale of the Boy Called Frog

## Part I Early Summer and Her Son

## Part II How Frog Found a New Mother

## Part III The Black Killer's Gold

## Part IV The Plowing of the Fish

## XX - The Circle of the Sorcerers

## XXI - The Duel of Magic

## XXII - The Skirts of the Mountain

## XXIII - The Cursed Town

## XXIV - The Corpse

## XXV - Typhon and Piaton

## XXVI - The Eyes of the World

## XXVII - On High Paths

## XXVIII - The Hetman's Dinner

## XXIX - The Hetman's Boat

## XXX - Natrium

## XXXI - The People of the Lake

## XXXII - To the Castle

## XXXIII - Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus

## XXXIV - Masks

## XXXV - The Signal

## XXXVI - The Fight in the Bailey

## XXXVII - Terminus Est

## XXXVIII - The Claw

## Appendix - A Note on Provincial Administration