Earthsea

Thrilling, wise and beautiful… Every word is perfect, like the spells Ged has to master * Guardian *
Ursula Le Guin’s world of Earthsea is a tangled skein of tiny islands cast on a vast sea. The islands’ names pull at my heart like no others… This is the strange paradox of other worlds: I know the salt taste of the wind on Selidor and its peculiar melancholy as well as any place I’ve actually been – Susanna Clarke
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
Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself – Zadie Smith
Earthsea deserves praise over and above what it has earned as breathtaking fantasy… to fol­low the Archmage’s story you have to grow with him * Times Literary Supplement *
To return to Earthsea today is to encounter a different kind of fantasy work, where knowing oneself is a painstaking, ceaseless endeavor… It is what the story is about, and the wonders Earthsea offers are scaled accordingly, to the sublime horizons of a life * The New Republic *
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

Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. She was the 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 volumes of translation. The Earthsea books have been translated into many languages around the world and are global bestsellers.

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