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The Farthest Shore (3) (Earthsea Cycle) Paperback – September 11, 2012

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The National Book Award–winning third novel in the renowned Earthsea series from Ursula K. LeGuin gets a beautiful new repackage.

In this third book in the Earthsea series, darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: The world and its wizards are losing their magic. But Ged Sparrohawk—Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord—is determined to discover the source of this devastating loss.
Aided by Enlad’s young Prince Arren, Ged embarks on a treacherous journey that will test their strength and will. Because to restore magic, the two warriors must venture to the farthest reaches of their world—and even beyond the realm of death.
With millions of copies sold worldwide, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere, alongside the works of such beloved authors as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Now the full Earthsea collection—A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, and The Other Wind—is available with a fresh, modern look that will endear it both to loyal fans and new legions of readers.

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"New and longtime Earthsea fans will be drawn to these impressive new editions." ― The Horn Book

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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards; a Newbery Honor; and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America. Le Guin was also the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. She received lifetime achievement awards from the World Fantasy Convention, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Library of Congress Living Legend Award. Her website is UrsulaKLeGuin.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (September 11, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 144245993X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1442459939
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 years and up
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 920L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.25 inches

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (US /ˈɜːrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography.

She influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell – and notable science fiction and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Le Guin has resided in Portland, Oregon since 1959.

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Grabast family

Youth to age and back again

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023

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How do we tell the tale of a life lived without a beginning and an end. Are the sum of the parts all there is to the whole? Not by any words can that truth be found and yet here can you read it.

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I’ve truly enjoyed reading these stories. The characters are engaging and the world is interesting. I appreciate being able to explore it with the main characters and experience the sense of adventure.

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One of the greatest stories..

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Aside from the Harry Potter series being largely ripped off from the details of Ursula LeGuins masterpiece...

The wizard Ged creates, through his vanity and insecurity, a shadow in the world which only he can master and put to rest. And this mistake of childhood follows him through his life in small ways ... the vanity, the temper. In an act of cruel temper
he forces a fellow wizard to walk with him to the Dry Land, to death, and back again, hoping to stop him from compelling the spirits of the dead to walk among us at his beckon call . But it backfires and the end of all things nearly occurs because, again, of his own temper, it seems, that brings about more evil than evil people. So many morals are taught, from this one, that our bad intentions ring for many years after, to ... how to talk to dragons, how to weave a spell, to welcome the visiting spirit, to listen to the language of water and know the names of all things... Its a spiritual journey, simply written
but deeply trod. I love it and read it often. And I am always renewed. I wish there were more stories about this hero,
or others in this world she invented back in the 60's. She describes the Earthsea world as revealing itself to her, rather than her making it up... and I almost believe it. For me, as I try also to undo the past and weave into the spells of today a forgiveness not only of myself, but of all things that walk this earth, I know there is a magic in all we do , one we take for
granted. For it is in the land of the living that we belong, to live outloud, to meet dragons in their own domain, chase dieing children into the land of death to save them, to walk with the shadow of our own hell, and, learning its name, be at peace with ourselves. Here for so short a moment, then forever to walk upon the dry land where mother and child sit, unknowing, near one another,
and those who died for love pass each other on the street. All this is in this little book. Everything from the nature of the evil ..
the weaving of spells, the thrill of arriving at the school of wizardry, these things that had not been written about
until Ms. Le Guin. The masters of Roke are as alive to me as my own teachers, and why not? Anything is possible if you believe and can see the ways it might manifest.
Good reading for ages 10 and up, I'd say.

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Ursula LeGuin is a master storyteller

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Spellbinding book. Read it as a kid, gave it as gift to 12 year old as gift. He loved it.

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confronting death in Earthsea

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In Ursula LeGuin's third Earthsea book, Ged and a young prince, Arren, must discover why the magic is disappearing from the world. Ultimately, this takes them on a quest in which the balance and boundary between life and death are at stake.

As with Tombs of Atuan, Ged is a major character but not the primary point of view character. By writing the story with Arren and placing some distance between the reader and Ged, I think LeGuin is able to emphasize Ged's mystique and power a bit more (at this point, Ged is Archmage). Arren himself is pretty interesting and struggles with his own reactions to death. He never becomes a cliche child hero, something I appreciate especially in light of Harry Potter.

While I like the plot of The Farthest Shore, I can't help but feel that it treads some of the same territory as A Wizard of Earthsea. Without revealing too many spoilers, both involve Ged on a journey to restore the balance between the worlds of life and death. In both, they land on new islands and encounter new cultures. Farthest Shore has by far the more detailed depictions of the peoples, as well as the consequences of the world being out of balance. The scene with the Masters at Roke was wonderful for how it succinctly demonstrated the effect of the problem on even the greatest wizards. But I still prefer the original book for the sense of wonder and mysticism it managed to convey.

Overall, another fun entry into Earthsea, one that will definitely encourage me to continue with the saga.

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Existentialist and Nonwestern

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The Wizard of Earthsea series is heavily influenced by nonwestern philosophy, so I wasn't expecting to see an existentialist novel by Le Guin. I enjoyed it.

The antagonist in this novel is the unwillingness of people to accept death. This also causes them to lose their passions in life: "To refuse death is to refuse life... You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor anything. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the light of sunrise and sunset, to buy safety for yourself -- safety forever?"

When the archmage is asked why he is unaffected by the malaise going over the world, he responds that wants to do what he is doing: "Because I desire nothing beyond my art... And if I am soon to lose it, I shall make the best of it while it lasts." In the book, his art represents all of the meaningful crafts and endeavors that people engage in and that make people happy. Desiring nothing beyond his art evokes Camus' "Myth of Sisyphus" for me -- that even though Sisyphus is only pushing a rock up a hill, we should still imagine Sisyphus happy. And making the best of his art while it lasts is a tight fitting analogy for making the most of a life that will end too soon.

He also accepts death: "Did you not understand that he, even he, is but a shadow and a name? His death did not diminish life"

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Not the end, merely a beginning

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The Farthest Shore is the final book of the Earthsea Trilogy, though thankfully not the final tale set in this wondrous realm.

 It’s plot can be summed up in five words - ‘Earthsea is losing it’s magic.’

 Much like everything I’ve experienced here while sailing the foam-flecked seas, bargaining with gloriously fierce dragons, and stumbling through the darkened labyrinth of malevolent gods - it’s not as simple as it seems.

 We don’t have ‘magic’ magic in the real world, but we definitely have a type of magic.

 Language both written and spoken, art, craft, love, joy in soil and water and wind. All these things are true magic, all things are life, and it is these things that are being drained from Earthsea - and from us.

 The Farthest Shore was a bit of a slow burn book for me and was looking to be a four-star read until near the end. If the themes of the book were heat, I was the proverbial frog in a pot and almost didn’t realise just how hot it was.

 In previous reviews, I’m mentioned just how current Ursula K. Le Guin’s work is, and The Farthest Shore is no exception.

 Here we have people coveting immortality which ultimately requires the trading of vibrant life for soulless existence. For the first time, there is drug use, chemical-dependence to fill a self-created void. Add to this rampant materialism and greed - pretty current, no?

 While I don’t have any idea about the times that this book was written, it sounds like a warning cry to society, one that perhaps unheeded.

 - ‘What is evil?’ asked the younger man. The round web, with its black centre, seemed to watch them both. ‘A web we men weave,’ Ged answered.

 Despite the above, it’s not a bleak crushing story, as with the preceding two books it’s cathartic in a way and ultimately redemptive.

 Ursula K.Le Guin’s characters are some of the most beautifully realised in fantasy with wonderfully organic growth, perfectly natural arcs.

 Over just 478 pages, albeit comprising three books, we see Sparrowhawk grow from boy to adult, to man. To me now he feels like a real person, and as much as a fictional character can be, a friend.

 Arren, Sparrowhawk’s companion in this adventure is also a deep and intricate character. His development here is not unlike Sparrowhawk’s in a Wizard of Earthsea in that he discovers both himself and the wider concept of balance.

 - ‘Sparrowhawk said only ‘To see a candle’s light one must take it into a dark place’ With that Arren tried to comfort himself; but he did not find it very comforting.’

 The writing as ever is lyrical and so exquisitely emotive that you can’t help but ravenously devour page after page, the narrative constantly bursting on the palette of your mind.

 - ‘The lightning would leap among the clouds, and the thunder would bellow, and still the mage stood with upraised hand, until the rain came pouring down on him, and on Arren, and into the vessels they had set out, and into the boat, and onto the sea, flattening the waves with its violence.’

 There are also some of the most beautiful descriptions of dragons, which I wanted to quote but you really should experience them yourself out in the wild!

 More of the world is revealed to us and as ever it’s - chef’s kiss - from the dingy streets of Hort to the wooden timbers of raft-city. It’s such an amazingly diverse and represented world which has rightly earned Ursula K. Le Guin the label ‘colossus of literature, and of anthropological and feminist science fiction in particular’

 So yeah, this book is just as good as the first two in the trilogy. But know it is slower, less the vigorous dash of youth and more the purposeful stride of hard-earned wisdom.

 It is also not the end.

 It is a beginning.

 The themes and unadulterated diversity are all things I see people crying out for in modern fantasy, and so it's likely I'm going to 'Malazan' Earthsea;

 Can anyone recommend a good romance novel? - Read Earthsea :) 

How about a modern dystopia? - Read Eathsea :)

 Reading these books you see so many roots of modern fantasy. The words are like the DNA of a great literary juggernaut and in them you can see the influences and the branching lines that evolved into handfuls of authors and novels.

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Denis Bridoux

A great series and a classic

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Good to get the whole series in Kindle format.
However, the missing star is due to the fact that the map at the beginning of each volume are VERY POORLY reproduced.
Their low definition makes it virtually impossible to decipher the names of the islands.
In addition, the missing middle map section deletes some of the islands, or parts of them, which makes it all but unusable.
A reader who doesn't have a hard copy to refer to, or who wouldn't make the effort to download a high quality map from the author's website, would be hard put to follow the travel of the protagonists.
The map sections should be resampled as a matter of urgency, as they are essential to the understanding of the story.

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G. Rowland

The whole series is epic and life affirming

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 1, 2020

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The Earthsea series is so enjoyable as an epic story but more than that it creates a world where values close to me heart are celebrated and affirmed. Although I listened to the books around six months ago, the characters stayed with me and the ideas in the books have given me a confidence in my intuition and world view which I'm very grateful for. Ursula K LeGuin has become one of my favourite writers.

SKJ

An interesting twist

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 21, 2021

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This book cleverly into unfolds and again seems to deepen from the before. Although the story jumps decades between each book their is nothing missing. Excellent

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A classic of the genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 10, 2011

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A great story, full of magic and an impending apocalypse. These stories are a throwback to CS Lewis and Tolkien, and anticipate Garth Nix and JK Rowling. Big issues (life, death, the afterlife, friendship, history, journeys as self fulfilment) are interwoven with cool dragons, nasty dark wizards, and an interesting trip 'into death'.

What more can one ask for in 180-odd pages?

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