The Dark One, the focus of universal evil, once imprisoned by the Creator in the mountain prison of Shayol Gul, managed to bring damage to the world, and people capable of using the One Power and performing great deeds with its help plunged the world into a catastrophe, which was called the Rift of the World. This was the end of the Age of Legends, and from the past only myths remained in human memory. And how could it have occurred to Rand, Perrin or Mat, a trio of inseparable friends from a village lost in the wilderness of the forest, that myths would soon become flesh, and they themselves would find themselves in the very center of events, on the outcome of which the fate of people on earth will depend. In this edition, the texts of the novels that made up the famous epic “The Wheel of Time” have been newly edited and corrected. The novel “Eye of the World” is supplemented by the author’s introduction, which has not been translated before.