Tales from Earthsea

The fifth book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Furthest Shore and Tehanu. With illustrations from Charles Vess `[This series] made me look at the world in a new way, imbued everything with a magic that was so much deeper than the magic I`d encountered before then. This was a magic of words, a magic of true speaking` Neil Gaiman `Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it` David Mitchell These five superlative, evocative and enchanting stories range from a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea to just before The Other Wind, and feature some of Le Guin`s most popular characters, including the Wizard Ged himself. The stories are rounded off with an essay about Earthsea`s history and people. No Earthsea fan will want to be without this magical collection. `[Earthsea is] a memorable exploration of the relationship between life and death. . . Ged, its hero, must face his shadow self before it devours him. Only then will he become whole. In the process, he must contend with the wisdom of dragons: ambiguous and not our wisdom, but wisdom nonetheless` Magaret Atwood