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  • Published: 29 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241956878
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $35.00

Earthsea

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




'One of the major works of fantasy in this century' Observer

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

Ged is but a 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.

And it is as the Archmage Sparrowhawk that he helps the High Priestess Tenar escape the labyrinth of darkness. But over the years, 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: $35.00

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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Praise for Earthsea

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