Earthsea Cycle #3

The Farthest Shore

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Un'oscura minaccia incombe su i maghi stanno perdendo la loro magia. Sarà di nuovo Ged a dover salvare le sorti della sua terra, intraprendendo un audace e insidioso viaggio, in compagnia del giovane principe Arren di Enlad. Insieme navigheranno verso le parti più estreme del loro mondo, affrontando soprannaturali pericoli, fino a raggiungere la spiaggia più lontana, ossia il confine tra la vita e la morte...

259 pages, Paperback

First published September 1,1972

This edition

Format
259 pages, Paperback
Published
November 23, 2004 by Gallery Books
ISBN
9781416509646
ASIN
141650964X
Language
English
Characters More characters
  • Lebannen

    Lebannen

    Called Arren [meaning "sword"], he is the young son of the prince of Enlad and the Enlades and the descendant of the Mage-King Morred and Elfarran. The true name Lebannen means "rowan tree" in the Old Speech.He accompanies the Archmage Sparrowhawk/Ged to ...

  • Ged

    Ged

    Ged, is the true name of a fictional character in Ursula K. Le Guins Earthsea realm. He is a powerful mage and dragonlord. more...

About the author

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Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. She lived in Portland, Oregon.

She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mixing traits extracted from her profound knowledge of anthropology acquired from growing up with her father, the famous anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. The Hainish Cycle reflects the anthropologist's experience of immersing themselves in new strange cultures since most of their main characters and narrators (Le Guin favoured the first-person narration) are envoys from a humanitarian organization, the Ekumen, sent to investigate or ally themselves with the people of a different world and learn their ways.

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