A superb four-part fantasy, comparable with the work of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the Earthsea books follow the fortunes of the wizard Ged from his childhood to an age where magic is giving way to evil.
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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