The Books of Earthsea

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea —“…reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago,” (David Mitchell)—comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations by award-winning illustrator Charles Vess, illuminating Le Guin’s vision of her classic saga.

Pre-order from Simon & Schuster.

News & Reviews

• This illustrated collection of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books finally does the series justice, by Andrew Liptak. theverge.com
• Ursula’s blog posts about working with illustrator Charles Vess:
  
  A Work in Progress: Earthsea Sketches by Charles Vess
  
  The Big Book of Earthsea

The Folio Society edition of A Wizard of Earthsea

Illustrated by David Lupton

Introduction by David Mitchell

The Six Books of Earthsea

A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, The Other Wind.

The World of Earthsea — UKL discusses the Earthsea series. New print and ebook editions now available.

“The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream.” — Neil Gaiman

EARTHSEA IN ARABIC!

The first Arabic translation of any of my books, A Wizard of Earthsea, has been published in Egypt. The translator is Mona Elnamoury, and the copyright is held by the publisher, the Egyptian National Center for Translation.

• Read by the Author: The Open Sea, an excerpt from Chapter 10 of A Wizard of Earthsea
• The Other Wind
• Bibliography: The Earthsea Books
• FAQ: In what order should I read the Earthsea books?
• Guest article: Two Trilogies and a Mystery: Speculations on the Earthsea Stories, by Margaret Mahy
• Guest article: Tehanu: A Return to the Source, by Sharada Bhanu, from her doctoral thesis.
• The Earthsea Books at Powell’s Bookstore
• Wallpaper Maps of Earthsea
• Gedo Senki: Index of information
• If you are looking for notes & comments about the Earthsea miniseries, please go to the Earthsea Miniseries index

Other Reviews

• An Education Through Earthsea, by Ryu Spaeth. The New Republic

Reference

The Isolate Tower: An Earthsea Compendium: A glossary of people, places & objects in Earthsea.

If you can’t remember who Elassen is or anything about Enwas, you will find them and many other people, places, and things here in alphabetical order, briefly and clearly located and described.

I had nothing to do with the making of this compendium and only just discovered it exists, but I certainly plan to use it from now on. So far I have not found any errors in it, and the authors keep to the fictofacts in the texts, avoiding interpretation, for which I am very grateful. I only wish it had existed before I wrote the books. It would have saved me from committing many small errors and discrepancies and a couple of really big ones.

— UKL

5 July 2017

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