The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny
“This is a fantasy series unlike any other I’ve read. It’s the story of a near-omnipotent royal family in a Shakespearean struggle for the throne of Amber, the one true world that casts out shadows making up the rest of existence. Yet this philosophically-inclined setting never becomes pedantic, and the protagonist, Carl, (and, later, his …