'Here, in a single volume, are the three novels that launched R. A. Salvatore as a major voice in fantasy fiction and introduced the character of Drizzt Do'Urden, the dark elf who struggles under the awful burden of his evil heritage. From his birth in the hideous underground city of Menzoberranzan, where murder and treachery are common coin, to the high passes of Icewind Dale in the surface world, Drizzt confronts enemies at every turn. Yet in Icewind Dale he also finds the friends who will support him in his adventures and will offer him that which he most desires: friendship and love.'
'Icewind Dale. Windswept passes and forbidding glaciers stand at the top of the world.  Below them, in the cold valleys, an evil force broods: the magic of Crenshinibon, the crystal shard.  Now dwarf, barbarian, and the drow elf join to battle evil.  Tempered in the furnace of struggle, they form an unbreakable friendship.  A legend is born'.