Series
Earthsea ;
1.
Summary
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. Full description
Summary: |
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. |
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Item Description: |
"A Parnassus Press book"--Title page verso. |
Physical Description: |
vii, 197 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
Awards: |
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners. |
ISBN: |
9780689317200 0689317204 9780547851396 0547851391 9780547722023 0547722028 9781439526446 1439526443 9780553262506 0553262505 9780547773742 0547773749 |
Author Notes: |
Her first science-fiction novel, Rocannon's World, was published in 1966. Her other books included the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, The Lathe of Heaven, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and The Telling. A Wizard of Earthsea received an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014. She also received the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. She also wrote books of poetry, short stories collections, collections of essays, children's books, a guide for writers, and volumes of translation including the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and selected poems by Gabriela Mistral. She died on January 22, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) |