The earthsea quartet

705 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 1993 by Penguin.

ISBN:
978-0-14-015427-6
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I was not much familiar with Le Guin nor the Earthsea-series before diving into this book. And it wasn't before the latter half of the fourth book in it, that I realized that I really liked both the setting, the characters and the stories. Individually, I would probably not rate them all this high. But reading them together did really improve the experience.

The first book, "A wizard of Earthsea", is almost like an origin-story that you'd expect seeing late in a series. The next three books all has the wizard Ged in them, but always as an older, mysterious figure. It's seldom his viewpoint you follow, but someone that meets him om their way, or that is taken away on an adventure by him. Almost like Gandalf or Dumbledore. But the first book explains his backstory, and you see him go from a young boy to a wizard. So …

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