Discover the late Ursula Le Guin's passionate and enthralling story of a young boy sent to a school of wizardry to learn the ways of magic in the opening quartet of the Earthsea story.
A literary icon'
Stephen King '
A colossus of literature, a trailblazer'
China Mieville Previously titled The Earthsea Quartet..
Dream it'
David Mitchell '
One of the greats.
Drown in it.
Drink this magic up.
Le Guin's words are magical.
I adored A Wizard of Earthsea, which I read and reread until my ratty old paperback copy required emergency surgery.
One of literature's best-written fantasy worlds.
Will he too succumb, or can he hold them back? '
Superb.
But over the years, Ged witnesses true magic and the ancient ways submit to the forces of evil and death.
And it is as the Archmage Sparrowhawk that he helps the High Priestess Tenar escape the labyrinth of darkness.
Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician.
Some of them are written on my soul'
Neil Gaiman 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.
Her words are always with us. '
One of the literary greats'
Margaret Atwood '
The deepest and smartest of writers.
Discover the late Ursula Le Guin's passionate and enthralling story of a young boy sent to a school of wizardry to learn the ways of magic in the opening quartet of the Earthsea story
