A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy novel. It was first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968. The story centers around a young mage named Ged, born in a village on the island of Gont. The world is inhabited by both humans and dragons.
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A Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin and first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968. It is regarded as a classic of children’s literature, and of fantasy, within which it was widely influential. The story centers around a young mage named Ged, born in a village on the island of Gont. The book has often been described as a Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, as it explores Ged’s process of learning to cope with power and come to terms with death. The structure of the story is similar to that of a traditional epic, although critics have also described it as subverting this genre in many ways, such as by making the protagonist dark-skinned in contrast to more typical white-skinned heroes. The world is inhabited by both humans and dragons, and several sorcerers are among humans among the sorcerers. The setting is pre-industrial, and the story has many cultures within the archipelago. Most of the characters of the Earthsea trilogy are aware of its most delicate balance, which is disrupted by somebody in each of the original trilogy of novels. The series is collectively referred to as theEarthsea Cycle, together with A Wizard ofEarthsea and Tales from Earthsea. It won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 1969 and was one of the final recipients of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. Margaret Atwood called it one of the “wellsprings” of fantasy literature.
The Earthsea Cycle includes the novels The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, The Other Wind, and Tales From Earthsea. It is also the setting for a short story, The Word of Unbinding, which was never published. The stories were later collected in Le GuIn’s anthology The Wind’s Twelve Quarters and published in 1964 and 1965. The short stories introduced the world of EarthSea and important concepts in it, including the treatment of magic. The Rule of Names also introduced Yevaud, a dragon who features briefly in A Wizard Of Earthsea, and also introduced the character of the Kargs, who are blonde and blue-eyed, and worship two gods who are brothers. The influence of Norse lore in particular can be seen in the characters in the book. Le Gu in has said that the book was in part a response to the image of wizards as ancient and wise, and to her wondering where they come from. Her knowledge of myths and legends, as well as her familial interest in anthropology, have been described by scholar Donna White as allowing her to create “entire cultures” for the islands of earthsea. In the fictional world, the islands were raised from the ocean by the Segoy, an ancient deity or deity, and are known as the Creation of É É. From the creation of É, with which A Wizard of Earthsea begins.
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