{"product_id":"ursula-k-le-guin-the-complete-earthsea-volume-two-loa-401-isbn-9781598538519","title":"Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Earthsea, Volume Two (LOA #401)","description":"\u003cb\u003eURSULA K. LE GUIN’S FANTASY MASTERPIECE, COMPLETE IN THE DEFINITIVE LIBRARY OF AMERICA EDITION OF HER WORKS\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Ursula K. Le Guin has returned to Earthsea. This is very good news indeed. Le Guin, one of modern science fiction's most acclaimed writers, is also a fantasist of genius.” \u003cbr\u003e                                        —Gerald Jonas, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin’s \u003ci\u003eEarthsea\u003c\/i\u003e novels and stories are set in the far-flung archipelago of Earthsea. The original three novels in the 1960s and 70s were the first and most successful of the descendants of J.R.R. Tolkien’s \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e and were the progenitors, in their turn, of all the wizard school and dragonlord fantasy series that have come since. But then Le Guin turned to Earthsea again, 18 years later, writing three more books that made Earthsea a far stranger and more compelling work still. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese later works are gathered here in the second volume in the Library of America's edition of the Complete Earthsea:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTehanu\u003c\/i\u003e (1990),\u003c\/b\u003e in which the widowed Tenar adopts a badly burned and abandoned child, a girl she names Tehanu. When Ged returns to Gont after losing his magic, Tenar helps him learn to live on the edge of things, even while an evil mage threatens their new life. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTales from Earthsea\u003c\/i\u003e (2001)\u003c\/b\u003e both reaches back in time to explore the beginnings of the school for mages on Roke and of Ged’s teacher Ogion, and, in “Dragonfly,” introduces Irian, a woman who realizes that she is other than what she seems. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Other Wind\u003c\/i\u003e (2001)\u003c\/b\u003e, in which Irian meets Tehanu after Alder, a village sorcerer, travels in search of Ged to find out why he dreams every night that the stone wall that divides Earthsea from the Dry Land of death is crumbling. The answer turns out to have to do with Tehanu, Irian, and the people like them—and with the origin of magic in Earthsea.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLe Guin’s \u003ci\u003eEarthsea\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most beloved and influential fantasy series of the 20th century.\u003cb\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)\u003c\/b\u003e was the recipient of multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Attebery\u003c\/b\u003e, editor, is emeritus professor of English at Idaho State University. He won the World Fantasy Award in 2021 for his editing of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Fantastic in the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e and has received the SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship, the IAFA Award for Distinguished Scholarship and two Mythopoeic Awards for myth and fantasy studies. He edited \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Book of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) with Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eFantasy: How It Works\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Oxford University Press in 2022. In 2019 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233816654053,"sku":"NP9781598538519","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ursula-k-le-guin-the-complete-earthsea-volume-two-loa-401-isbn-9781598538519","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}