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  • Published: 29 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241956878
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $40.00

Earthsea

The First Four Books: *A Wizard of Earthsea *The Tombs of Atuan *The Farthest Shore *Tehanu

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There was The Chronicles of Narnia, there was The Lord of the Rings - and then there was Earthsea

A Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * Tehanu

Ged is but a young goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician.

Over the years and distances, he hones his craft and helps the High Priestess Tenar escape the labyrinth of darkness. But it is as Archmage Sparrowhawk that Ged witnesses true magic and the ancient ways submit to the forces of evil and death. Will he too succumb, or can he hold them back?
  • Published: 29 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241956878
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Ursula Le Guin

Ursula Le Guin was bornin Berkley, California, in 1929, daughter of the writer Theodora Krober and theanthropologist Alfred Krober. Her published work includes twenty-one novels,eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books forchildren, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. Among her novels arethe The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, both winners of the Nebula and Hugoawards, Always Coming Home, winner of the 1985 Kafka Award,and Four Ways to Forgiveness. In 2009 she won her sixth Nebulaaward for Powers. She died in January 2018 aged 88. Penguin/Puffin published the first volume ofthe Earthsea books, A Wizard of Earthsea, in 1971. The Earthsea books have been translatedinto many languages around the world and are global bestsellers.
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Also by Ursula Le Guin

Earthsea: Series 2
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Left Hand of Darkness
Earthsea: The First Four Books
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Praise for Earthsea

One of the major works of fantasy in this century

Observer

One of literature's best-written fantasy worlds. I adored A Wizard of Earthsea, which I read and reread until my ratty old paperback copy required emergency surgery. Le Guin's words are magical. Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it

David Mitchell

A literary icon

Stephen King

A colossus of literature, a trailblazer

China Mieville

Thrilling, wise and beautiful... Every word is perfect, like the spells Ged has to master

Guardian

Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself

Zadie Smith

One of the literary greats of the 20th century

Margaret Atwood

Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write

Guardian

Composed sparely, shaped by narratives so basic they must be inscribed upon our cells, they read as if they were not written but found, dug out like jewels from rock

Village Voice

A writer of phenomenal power

Observer