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A Wizard of Earthsea
  • Published: 11 May 2027
  • ISBN: 9781405996600
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

A Wizard of Earthsea

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The bestselling fantasy classic about a young boy's quest to master magic, the land and life itself

This is a tale of wizards, dragons and shadows, played out in a world like and unlike our own, an Archipelago of imagined lands.

When a young goatherd on the island of Gont uncovers his strange powers over nature, he is sent to the School for Wizards to learn the true way of magic. But as the boy's power grows, so does his arrogance. Tempted by pride to perform spells beyond his means, he lets loose a terrible evil into the world. Only he can destroy it, and the quest will lead him to the farthest corners of Earthsea.

The island of Gont is a land famous for wizards. Of these, some say the greatest - and surely the greatest voyager - is the man called Sparrowhawk. This is his beginning.

A Wizard of Earthsea has captured the imaginations of millions of readers since its publication in 1968, establishing itself as one of the most beloved fantasy classics of the twentieth century.
  • Published: 11 May 2027
  • ISBN: 9781405996600
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

Guardian

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

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

Zadie Smith

One of the major works of fantasy in this century

Observer

A literary icon

Stephen King

One of the literary greats of the 20th century

Margaret Atwood

A colossus of literature, a trailblazer

China Mieville