Now for the first time ever, all together in one volume, The Books of Earthsea contains the early short stories, Le Guin's 'Earthsea Revisioned' Oxford lecture, and new Earthsea stories, never before printed. With a new introduction by Le Guin herself, this essential edition will also include over fifty illustrations by renowned artist Charles Vess, specially commissioned and selected by Le Guin, to bring her refined vision of Earthsea and its people to life in a totally new way.
- 1,008 pages
- 56 illustrations (including seven lavishly coloured plate sections)
- Maps of Earthsea
- Stunningly beautiful endpapers
- Six novels
- 4 short stories
- An essay
Stories include: 'A Wizard of Earthsea', 'The Tombs of Atuan', 'The Farthest Shore', 'Tehanu', 'Tales From Earthsea', 'The Other Wind', 'The Rule of Names', 'The Word of Unbinding', 'The Daughter of Odren', and 'Earthsea Revisioned: A Lecture at Oxford University'.
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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. A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA, CHAPTER 1 (WARRIORS IN THE MIST)
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(@gollancz, 25 October 2018, ebook, 1008 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I've enjoyed other books by the author and have wanted to read Earthsea for a long time. This a huge tome of a book but I'm glad I got a chance to get lost in all of the books. A Wizard of Earthsea is my favourite. I enjoyed the stories a lot as well. I didn't read Earthsea Revisioned: A Lecture at Oxford University as it didn't interest me. This is the complete illustrated edition and I found the illustrations a little disappointing. They are sparse and mostly black and white. I was expecting something more impressive.
