Книга: Le Guin Ursula K. «A Wizard of Earthsea»

A Wizard of Earthsea

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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 leads him to the farthest corner of Earthsea.

Издательство: "Penguin Group" (2016)

ISBN: 978-0-14-135491-0

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Le Guin, Ursula K.

▪ American author
original name in full  Ursula Kroeber  
born Oct. 21, 1929, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.

      American writer best known for tales of science fiction and fantasy imbued with concern for character development and language.

      Le Guin, the daughter of the distinguished anthropologist A.L. Kroeber (Kroeber, A.L.) and writer Theodora Kroeber, attended Radcliffe College (B.A., 1951) and Columbia University (M.A., 1952). The methods of anthropology influenced her science-fiction stories, which often feature highly detailed descriptions of alien societies. Her first three novels, Rocannon's World (1966), Planet of Exile (1966), and City of Illusions (1967), introduce beings from the planet Hain, who established human life on habitable planets, including Earth. Although her Earthsea series—A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), The Farthest Shore (1972), Tehanu (1990), Tales from Earthsea (2001), and The Other Wind (2001)—was written for children, Le Guin's skillful writing and acute perceptions attracted a large adult readership. She tapped the young adult market again with her Annals of the Western Shore series, which includes Gifts (2004), Voices (2006), and Powers (2007). Le Guin also wrote a series of books about cats with wings; the series includes Catwings Return and Jane on Her Own, both published in 1999.

      Le Guin's most philosophically significant novels exhibit the same attention to detail that characterizes her science fiction and high fantasy works. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) is about a race of androgynous people who may become either male or female. In The Dispossessed (1974), she examined two neighbouring worlds that are home to antithetical societies, one capitalist, the other anarchic, both of which stifle freedom in particular ways. The destruction of indigenous peoples on a planet colonized by Earth is the focus of The Word for World Is Forest (1972). Always Coming Home (1985) concerns the Kesh, survivors of nuclear war in California—this includes poetry, prose, legends, autobiography, and a tape recording of Kesh music. In 2008 Le Guin made literary news with Lavinia, a metatextual examination of a minor character from Virgil's Aeneid and her role in the historical development of early Rome.

      Le Guin also wrote many essays on fantasy fiction, feminist issues, writing, and other topics, some of them collected in The Language of the Night (1979), Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989), Steering the Craft (1998), and The Wave in the Mind (2004). In 2000 she was awarded the Living Legend medal by the Library of Congress (Congress, Library of).

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Источник: Le Guin, Ursula K.

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