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Tales from Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Editions:
- Hardcover - 320 pages (May 2001) Harcourt; ISBN: 0151005613
- Audio Cassette, unabridged, (9 September, 2001) Audio Literature;
ISBN: 1574534521 (narrated by Scott Brick and Gabrielle De Cuit)
This is a collection of short stories in the Earthsea
Series. It contains a "Description of Earthsea"
and five stories:
- The Finder
- Darkrose and Diamond
- The Bones of the Earth
- On the High Marsh
- Dragonfly
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Tales from Earthsea, Puffin
2000 (larger image)
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Synopsis 
This synopsis and the cover image are boldly taken from the Publisher's
site, www.harcourt.com. I don't
think they mind us using them here.
The tales of this book, as Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her introduction,
explore or extend the world established by her first four Earthsea novels.
Yet each 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 shows how some
of its customs and institutions came to be. "The Bones of the Earth"
features the wizards who taught the wizard who first taught Ged and demonstrates
how humility, if great enough, can contend with an earthquake. "Darkrose
and Diamond" is a delightful story of young courtship showing that
wizards sometimes pursue alternative careers. "On the High Marsh"
tells of the love of power-and of the power of love. "Dragonfly"
shows how a determined woman can break the glass ceiling of male magedom.
Concluding with an account of Earthsea's history, people, languages,
literature, and magic, this collection also features two new maps of Earthsea.
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