The Other Wind - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Other Wind [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Ursula K. Le Guin, book 6 of The Earthsea Cycle. In her afterword to the 2012 “unified edition” of Earthsea, author Le Guin notes that the six books have been persistently called a “trilogy” and sometimes a “quartet,” while […]

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Tales from Earthsea - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Tales from Earthsea [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Ursula K Le Guin, part of the Earthsea series. The penultimate book of the Earthsea cycle is a collection of five stories rather than a novel. In principle, it could be a point of entry to the series, since […]

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A Wizard of Earthsea - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews A Wizard of Earthsea [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Ursula K Le Guin, book 1 of The Earthsea Cycle series. A Wizard of Earthsea was an early venture into “YA Fantasy” publishing, and it set much of the pattern for the wizard bildungsroman that later made the fortune […]

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