Ursula K. Le Guin
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| Title | : | The Earthsea Trilogy (Earthsea Cycle #1-3) |
| Author | : | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 478 pages |
| Published | : | 1979 by Penguin Books Limited (first published 1972) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Young Adult. Science Fiction Fantasy. Science Fiction. Classics |
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As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhawk, the greatest of the great wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan; and he who, as an old man, rode the mighty dragon Kalessin back from the land of the dead. And then, the legends say, Sparrowhawk entered his boat, Lookfar, turned his back on land, and without wind or sail or oar moved westward over the sea and out of sight.Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin's brilliant and magical trilogy.
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| Original Title: | The Earthsea Trilogy |
| ISBN: | 0140050930 (ISBN13: 9780140050936) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.ursulakleguin.com/ |
| Series: | Earthsea Cycle #1-3 |
| Characters: | Lebannen, Ged |
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Ratings: 4.26 From 17770 Users | 372 ReviewsEvaluate Appertaining To Books The Earthsea Trilogy (Earthsea Cycle #1-3)
favorite children fictionHaving previously read Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness, I was a little leery of starting on the Earthsea Trilogy. I found Le Guin's style in Left Hand of Darkness to be very difficult to slog through for me and, while her ideas and story were very well crafted, I did not enjoy my reading experience at all.My experience with the Earthsea Trilogy couldn't have been more different from that of Left Hand of Darkness. Maybe because Earthsea is more intended for a younger audience, none of the
Very disappointing.This book was recommended to me by one of my favorite professors, so it's hard to say I really didn't like it. But I really didn't. The plots are rambling and formulaic, the characters are flat, and the narration aspires to poetry but comes off as awkward and over-the-top. Everything in the story has been done better by some other author, usually Tolkien.Maybe I just don't know how to read this style, but the general sense I get from it is negative. Le Guin does make her main
This was a lovely classic of fantasy to find myself reading. This volume contains A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, and The Farthest Shore--the first three novels Le Guin set in Earthsea and the story of the great wizard Ged. I found it a bit slow at times, although always beautiful and always interesting and Le Guin's magic possesses a smooth self-awareness of its own philosophy that makes it especially interesting as a reader to encounter. This is a magic preoccupied with balance and
This is the first three books in the Earthsea series. They're short novels and all three together make up the length of one average book. They're quick, fun reads. The first two books were 3 stars for me and the third book I gave 4 stars (I'm a sucker for dragons). I'm sure I'll finish out the series.
Unlike the Lord of the Rings, which is three volumes of one book, this consists of three books which are each quite distinct entities to themselves. (I was just too lazy to find all three books and review them separately.) They go together because they share a common protagonist, the erstwhile goatherd known as Sparrowhawk, whose true name is Ged.The first book, A Wizard of Earthsea, deals with Ged as boy and young man, struggling to come to grips with his power. The second book, The Tombs of
At first, I wasn't sure if I liked The Earthsea Trilogy. I kept believing I did not, and yet I continued reading. After finishing the first two books, I'm a Le Guin convert. Her writing style is far different from anything I've encountered before. Her sentences are sparse, and as my best friend described, "leave emotional space between the lines." Le Guin includes no word that is not necessary. If you're sick and tired of 700 page fantasy novels that have a map of Europe in the front, try
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