The Farthest Shore [Paperback]

Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged—powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord—embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.

With millions of copies sold,Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cyclehas earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time.A Reading Group Guide for

The Earthsea Cycle
By Ursula K. Le Guin

About the Earthsea Cycle

Earthsea is a fictional realm originally created by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story The Word of Unbinding, published in 1964. Earthsea became the setting for six books, beginning withA Wizard of Earthsea,and continuing withThe Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea,andThe Other Wind.All are set in the world of Earthsea. Each novel in the series has received a prestigious literary award, including the 1969Boston Globe –Horn BookAward for Fiction and the 1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award forA Wizard of Earthsea,the 1972 Newbery Honor forThe Tombs of Atuan,the 1973 National Book Award for Children's Books forThe Farthest Shore,the 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novel forTehanu,and the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel forThe Other Wind.

Book 1: A Wizard of Earthsea

About the Book

Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-hl‡