| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780553262506 | | Publisher: Bantam Books | | Publish Date: 1/1/1991 | | Buy.com Sku: 30099076 | | Item#: RRST5P | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.75H x 4.1L x 0.5T |
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| | | | ""The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.".." (from the first line) Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
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This classic YA fantasy launched the Earthsea series, one of writer Ursula K. Le Guin's most famous sets of books. A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA is a coming-of-age tale set in a magical landscape populated by witches, wizards, and dragons. Despite these familiar fantasy trappings, Le Guin's powerful, lyrical prose allows her to avoid clich and lend her world its own distinctive mythic quality. Ged, or Sparrowhawk as he's also known, is a precocious, reckless young wizard. When he inadvertently summons up a dark spirit during a spellcasting gone awry, the creature pursues Ged all over Earthsea until he finally learns how to confront it.
| Author Bio| Ursula K. Le Guin | | Born in Berkeley, California to an anthropologist father and a writer mother, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote her first story at the age of 9. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951 and received an M.A. from Columbia in 1952. The next year, she met her future husband, Charles A. Le Guin, while on the Queen Mary passenger liner en route to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship--they married in December of 1953. While she is known as an author of science fiction, fantasy, and children's books, Le Guin's stories and novels supersede the genres; she uses science fiction conventions to explore vast human issues such as sexuality, human relations, gender politics, and war. Her writing has been widely embraced by readers and critics, winning a number of awards including both the Hugo and Nebula awards for two of her books, THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (1969) and THE DISPOSSESSED (1974). Le Guin has been greatly influenced by Taoist philosophy, and her vast body of nonfiction has included a retelling of the Lao Tzu's TAO TE CHIONG. In 1998, the Colorado School of Mines' Mobile Robots Project named one of its newly designed robots after her, along with ones named after fellow authors Lois McMaster Bujold and Connie Willis. In 2000, she was the recipient of The Los Angles Times' Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement. |
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Horn Book Award (1969) |  | won, Fiction | | |
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