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A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
The award-winning stories in this collection range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart.Featuring such objects of the imagination as a starship that sails on the wings of song, musical in ...Show more
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
Category: Fiction | Series: Earthsea Cycle
Originally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" marks the first of the six now beloved Earthsea titles. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loos ...Show more
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula Le Guin
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Earthsea
The first book of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin is a tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The island of Gont is a land famous for wizards. Of these, some say the greatest - and surely the greatest voyager - is the man called Sparrowhawk. As a reckless, awkward boy, he discovered the great power ...Show more
A Wizard of Earthsea: The First Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: The\Earthsea Quartet Ser.
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk 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 ...Show more
Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Other Essays 1972-2004 by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Politics
Ursula K. Le Guin has won or been nominated for over 200 awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master Awards. She is the acclaimed author of the Earthsea sequence and The Left Hand of Darkness - which alone would qualify her for literary immortality - as well a ...Show more
Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K Le Guin
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Earthsea
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. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician. And it is as the Archmage S ...Show more
Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Earthsea
One of the classic works of fantasy by renowned writer of the genre, Ursula K. Le Guin. As a young dragonlord, Ged, whose use-name is Sparrowhawk, is sent to the island of Roke to learn the true way of magic. A natural magician, Ged becomes an Archmage and helps the High Priestess Tenar escape from the ...Show more
Earthsea: the First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Children's Classics
Rebel Voices: Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Classics collection, celebrating International Women's Day 2023 'One of the literary greats of the 20th century' - Margaret Atwood Earthsea: The First Four Books is a collection of one of the most beloved and influential fantasy w ...Show more
Five Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula. K Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
'A magic of words' Neil GaimanSet in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these five linked stories follow far-future human colonies living in the distant solar system.Here is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin's acclaimed Hainish series, whi ...Show more
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching - A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Religion
Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of ...Show more
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin; Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction by)
Category: Non-Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?"On breakfast: "Eatin ...Show more
So Far, So Good - Poems 2014-2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Fiction
"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin." --Salon "She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." --Margaret Atwood "There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's." --Grac ...Show more