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  - shadow of the torturer
title: The Shadow of the Torturer
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authors:
  - Gene Wolfe
series: The Book of the New Sun
type: book
year: 1980
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# The Shadow of the Torturer

## I - Resurrection and Death

## II - Severian

## III - The Autarch's Face

## IV - Triskele

## V - The Picture-Cleaner and Others

## VI - The Master of the Curators

## VII - The Traitress

## VIII - The Conversationalist

## IX - The House Azure

## X - The Last Year

## XI - The Feast

## XII - The Traitor

## XIII - The Lictor of Thrax

## XIV - Terminus Est

## XV - Baldanders

## XVI - The Rag Shop

## XVII - The Challenge

## XVIII - The Destruction of the Altar

## XIX - The Botanic Gardens

## XX - Father Inire's Mirrors

## XXI - The Hut in the Jungle

## XXII - Dorcas

## XXIII - Hildegrin

## XXIV - The Flower of Dissolution

## XXV - The Inn of Lost Loves

## XXVI - Sennet

## XXVII - Is He Dead?

## XXVIII - Carnifex

## XXIX - Agilus

## XXX - Night

## XXXI - The Shadow of the Torturer

## XXXII - The Play

## XXXIII - Five Legs

## XXXIV - Morning

## XXXV - Hethor

## Appendix