General Information
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 Title:                  Tales from Earthsea
 Author:                 Ursula K LeGuin
 Read By:                Various
 Copyright:              2001
 Audiobook Copyright:    2001
 Genre:                  Fantasy
 Publisher:              Fantastic Audio
 Series Name:            Earthsea
 Position in Series:     5
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Media:                  Tape
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Very Good

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Book Description
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Winner of five Nebula and five Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, 
the Newbery, and many other awards, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the 
finest authors ever to write science fiction and fantasy. Her greatest 
creation may be the powerful, beautifully written, and deeply imagined 
Earthsea Cycle, which inhabits the rarified air at the pinnacle of modern 
fantasy with J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and Jane Yolen's 
Chronicles of Great Alta. The books of the Earthsea Cycle are A Wizard 
of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), The Farthest Shore (1972), 
the Nebula-winning Tehanu (1990), and now, Tales of Earthsea (2001).
If you have never read an Earthsea book, this collection isn't the place 
to start, as the author points out in her thoughtful foreword; begin 
with A Wizard of Earthsea. If you insist on starting with Tales of Earthsea, 
read the foreword and the appended "Description of Earthsea" before 
proceeding to the five stories (three of which are original to this 
book).

The opening story, "The Finder," occupies a third of the volume and 
has the strength and insight of a novel. This novella describes the 
youth of Otter, a powerful but half-trained sorcerer, and reveals how 
Otter came to an isle that cannot be found, and played a role in the 
founding of the great Roke School. "Darkrose and Diamond" tells of two 
lovers who would turn their backs on magic. In "The Bones of the Earth," 
an aging wizard and his distant pupil must somehow join forces to oppose 
an earthquake. Ged, the Archmage of Earthsea, appears in "On the High 
Marsh" to find the mad and dangerous mage he had driven from Roke Island. 
And in "Dragonfly," the closing story, a mysterious woman comes to the 
Roke School to challenge the rule that only men may be mages. "Dragonfly" 
takes place a few years after Tehanu and is the bridge between that 
novel and the next novel, The Other Wind (fall 2001).

The tales of this book explore or extend the world established by Le 
Guin’s first four Earthsea novels. Yet each tale stands on its own. 
“The Finder”, a novella set a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea, 
presents a dark and troubled Archipelago and reveals how the school 
on Roke came to be. “Darkrose and Diamond” is a delightful story of 
young courtship showing that sometimes wizards can pursue alternative 
careers. “The Bones of the Earth” features the wizards who taught the 
wizard who first taught Ged and demonstrates how humility, if great 
enough, can rein in an earthquake. “On the High Marsh”, from the brief 
but eventful time of Ged as Archmage of Earthsea, tells of the power 
of love. “Dragonfly” shows how a woman, determined enough, can break 
the glass ceiling of male magedom. Taking place shortly after the last 
Earthsea novel, it also provides a bridge--a dragon bridge--to the next 
Earthsea novel, The Other Wind. --from the audiobook jacket

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