A Wizard of Earthsea

The first book of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin is a tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The island of Gont is a land famous for wizards. Of these, some say the greatest - and surely the greatest voyager - is the man called Sparrowhawk. As a reckless, awkward boy, he discovered the great power that was in him - with terrifying consequences. Tempted by pride to try spells beyond his means, Sparrowhawk lets loose an evil shadow-beast in his land. Only he can destroy it, and the quest...

The first three novels set in Ursula K. Le Guin's famed Hainish universe, together in one volume. From the multi-award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea sequence comes this single-volume omnibus of the first three Hainish novels. Intergalactic war reaches Fomalhaut II in Rocannon's World. Born out of season, a precocious young girl visits the alien city of the farborns and the false-men in Planet of Exile. In City of Illusions a stranger wandering in the...

A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. In defending their lives, they endanger the very foundations of their society. Every blow against the invaders is a blow to the core of Athsheans' culture. And once the killing starts,...

Tenar, die geflohene Priesterin aus den Grabern von Atuan, hat sich auf der Insel Gont niedergelassen. Sie adoptiert Therru, ein Madchen, das ein schlimmes Schicksal erlitten hat und dem bestimmt ist, entscheidend in die Geschicke von Erdsee einzugreifen. Als Ged, einstiger Erzmagier und am Ende von »Das letzte Ufer« seiner magischen Krafte beraubt, nach Gont zuruckkehrt, schlie?t er sich der Dorfgemeinschaft an, und zusammen mit Tenar sorgt er fur Therru, um sie vor dem bosen Zauberer Aspen zu...