Before Harry Potter, before Star Wars, there was a story like no other . . .
Welcome to Earthsea.
It’s magical.
'There’s no like her'
Zadie Smith
'her work deepened, expanded and challenged my expectations of literature, awed me with the power of an unfettered imagination’ Michael Chabon
'This was a magic of words, a magic of true speaking' Neil Gaiman
'Like nearly any other reader of my generation, I was awed by early encounters with Ursula Le Guin’s writing' Jonathan Lethem
'One of the great American writers and a visionary artist whose work will long endure' Joyce Carol Oates
'A writer of intense ethical seriousness and intelligence, of wit and fury, of radical politics, of subtlety, of freedom and yearning, Le Guin was a literary colossus' China Miéville
In October, we will publish
The Books of Earthsea: Complete Illustrated Edition
By Ursula Le Guin
&
Illustrated by Charles Vess
Fifty years ago, science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin released A Wizard of Earthsea, the first installment of a well-lauded and influential fantasy series.
Sadly, Le Guin passed away in January, but later this year, one of her final projects will be released.
A collected edition of her Earthsea works featuring nearly 60 illustrations by fantasy artist Charles Vess.
Now for the first time ever, all together in one volume, The Books of Earthsea, contains the early short stories, Le Guin's 'Earthsea Revisioned' Oxford lecture, and new Earthsea stories, never before printed.
With a new introduction by Le Guin herself, this essential edition will also include over fifty illustrations by renowned artist Charles Vess, specially commissioned and selected by Le Guin, to bring her refined vision of Earthsea and its people to life in a totally new way.
It'll be a massive tome, weighing in at just over a thousand pages.
It will also contain 'Firelight’ – the last story of Ged, written by Ursula in the last months of her life. Poetic and poignant, there could be no moreperfect end to the Earthsea stories
Featuring:
- 1,008 pages
- 56 illustrations (including seven lavishly coloured plate sections)
- maps of Earthsea
- stunningly beautiful endpapers
- Six novels
- 4 short stories
- An essay
There is nothing else like it.
THE BOOKS OF EARTHSEA
PUBLISHING IN HARDBACK 25th OCTOBER 2018 |