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A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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Timothy
Aug 17, 2020 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: sci-fi-fantasy
Densely prosaic writing; a morsel of which can easily be chewed and considered, yet with a lyrical, or perhaps elegiac, quality. The novel is short, really more of a longer novella, yet the depth of cleverly inserted world building makes it feel as if you have read a longer work, with roots as deep as any mythology that Tolkien could build. And yes, the comparisons with the elder work are both obligatory and necessary in my opinion. But Ms. Leguin definitely does her own thing here as the plot i ...more
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