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...

Earthsea Cycle, also known as Earthsea, is a series of high fantasy books written by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Beginning with A Wizard of...

the setting for a further six books, beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968, and continuing with The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest...

/ˈɡɛd/ is the true name of a fictional character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea realm. He is introduced in A Wizard of Earthsea, and plays both main and...

This is a list of the names of characters in the stories about the fantasy world of Earthsea, created by Ursula K. Le Guin. In Earthsea, each individual...

published as a book by Atheneum Books in 1971. It is the second book in the Earthsea series after A Wizard of Earthsea (1969). The Tombs of Atuan was a Newbery...

so-called Earthsea trilogy, beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea. The events of The Farthest Shore take place several decades after The Tombs of Atuan and...

publication of A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968, and The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969. The Earthsea books, of which A Wizard of Earthsea was the first, have...

plots of the first two Earthsea novels, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, the story follows Ged (Shawn Ashmore), a powerful but reckless mage-in-training...

on a combination of plot and character elements from the first four books of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan...

stories of Tenar, the heroine of the second book of the Earthsea series The Tombs of Atuan, and Ged, the hero of the first book, A Wizard of Earthsea. Tehanu...

achieved major critical and commercial success with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), which have been described by Harold...

(among the Islands of Earthsea, though this is not mentioned in the original story) contains a rustic village and a resident wizard, nicknamed "Underhill"...

against it. One of the first was Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series of novels, starting in 1968, which used Tolkienian archetypes such as wizards, a disinherited...

premise of Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus, 1968), in which a boy with unusual aptitude for magic is recognised, and sent to a special...

Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea explored the question of how wizards learned their art, introducing to modern fantasy the role of the wizard as the protagonist...

this story, the Earthsea realm, which was later made famous by A Wizard of Earthsea, was first introduced. Along with the story "The Rule of Names", this...

the basic premise of A Wizard of Earthsea, that of a talented boy going to a wizard's school and making an enemy with whom he has a close connection,...

(1964). Angles and Britons. University of Wales Press. p. 36. LeGuin, Ursula K. (1968). A Wizard Of Earthsea. Parnassus. p. 64. ISBN 9780553262506....

2001) of the Earthsea cycle, all set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea. Tales from Earthsea won the annual Endeavour Award, for the best book by a writer...

Book Banning and Harry Potter". Wired. January 23, 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2014. Kaytek the Wizard A Wizard of Earthsea Children's literature portal...

entries Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer and Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, the first volumes of New Sun and Earthsea. Solar Cycle series listing...

Farthest Shore, 1972) Yevaud (A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968) Orm Irian and Tehanu, each of whom was a dragon in human form who acted as a diplomat between her races...

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin ahead of Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer. Third and fourth ranks were exchanged in the 1998 rendition of...

He also credits various fantasy novels such as The Name of the Wind, A Wizard of Earthsea, and Ender's Game as inspirations for the novel. Writing for...

novel A Wizard of Earthsea to describe the leader of a group of wizards. The term has since become common place in fantasy literature and media. One of the...

treasure-guarding dragons.: 45–46  The Dragons of Earthsea in Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea hoard treasure. Salamander letter Huggins, Ronald...

higher in Locus's poll were The Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, The Hobbit, A Wizard of Earthsea and Nine Princes in Amber. Marshall, Richard (February...

to meet a new demand for literate fantasy in the American marketplace. Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968,...

indebted to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. Other literary influences include Harry Potter, A Wizard of Earthsea, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,...