

The world of Earthsea is a sprawling archipelago where magic is a part of everyday life, dragons are an occasional threat, and the afterlife is a very real place. Le Guin revisited Earthsea again in 2014 with the short story "The Daughter of Odren", followed in 2018 by the very last Earthsea story, "Firelight".

These books were more adult than the original trilogy, dealing with some very mature subjects. These stories were shortly followed by a trilogy of young adult novels:ĭecades later, Le Guin returned to Earthsea with a fourth novel, followed after another decade by a collection of new short stories and one final novel. Le Guin, which began as a pair of short stories in 1964, "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names".

A classic series of high fantasy books by Ursula K.
