Earthsea
The First Four Books: A Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * Tehanu
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:23rd Feb '12
Should be back in stock very soon

There was The Chronicles of Narnia, there was The Lord of the Rings - and then there was Earthsea
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.
Discover Ursula Le Guin's timeless fantasy masterpiece in the opening quartet of the Earthsea story.
'One of the literary greats' Margaret Atwood
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?
Steeped in magic and otherworldly wisdom, Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature and have captured the hearts and minds of millions of readers.
'Le Guin's words are magical. Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it' David Mitchell
'One of the greats. A literary icon' Stephen King
'A colossus of literature, a trailblazer' China Mieville
Previously titled The Earthsea Quartet.
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
ISBN: 9780241956878
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 32mm
Weight: 478g
704 pages