It was very well received and a commercial success, selling over 1.5 million retail copies to date. On October 26, 2007, Polish game publisher CD PROJEKT RED released a PC game based on this universe, called The Witcher. Sapkowski's books have been translated into Czech, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Serbian. A film by the same title was compiled from excerpts of the television series but both have been critical and box office failures. In 2001, a television series based on the Witcher series was released in Poland and internationally, entitled The Hexer ( Wiedźmin). The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine Review Tolkien, while being also heavily influenced by Polish history and Slavic mythology. The world in which these adventures take place owes much to J.R.R. At the same time cynical and noble, Geralt has been compared to Raymond Chandler's signature character Philip Marlowe. Geralt exists in a morally ambiguous universe, yet manages to maintain his own coherent code of ethics. The main character of the stories is witcher Geralt, a mutant assassin who has been trained since childhood to hunt down and destroy monsters. This cycle and his many other works made him one of the best-known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s. Sapkowski has created a series of tales based on the world of 'The Witcher', comprising three collections of short stories and five novels. His first short story, ' The Witcher' ('Wiedźmin'), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski studied economics and, before turning to writing, he worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company.

The Witcher collaborated Andrzej Sapkowski, born 21 June 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer.

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