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by Ursula Le Guin (Author) "IN THE COURT OF THE FOUNTAIN THE SUN of March shone through young leaves of ash and elm, and water leapt and fell through shadow..." (more)
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DARKNESS THREATENS to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged -- powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.

With millions of copies sold, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time. She lives in Portland, Oregon. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.



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A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Becoming Whole, Jun 1 2001
By James D. DeWitt "Alaska Fan" (Fairbanks, AK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Farthest Shore (Paperback)
LeGuin's third book in her Earthsea series is her most ambitious. Her thesis: you can only become whole by facing and accepting death, the darkest shadow. Lifted straight from Jungian psychology, this is the hardest and the important part of being whole. Sparrowhawk knows most of this truth already: remember the climax to Wizard of Earthsea. Arren, the young prince who accompanies Sparrowhawk on the epic voyages of this third book, has not yet learned this harsh lesson.

You don't need to know anything about Carl Jung to read and enjoy this book. At one level, this is a children's tale. But this book has many levels. Consider: the last king, Maharrion, had prophesied that there would be no king to succeed him until one appeared who had crossed the farthest shore. I'm not giving anything away by telling you that the farthest shore is physical - the western shore of the westernmost isle of Earthsea and metaphysical - death. And readers of earlier books know that for the wizards of Earthasea, there is a low stone fence that separates the living from the dead.

There is another wizard - humiliated by a younger Sparrowhawk - who has both great power and a terror of death. And he has worked a spell that will devastate the world, by denying and avoiding death. But by denying death, he has denied life, and magic, song, joy, reason and even life are draining out of the world. That spell must be undone before it is too late. And that task falls to Sparowhawk and Arren.

Arren must learn to understand and accept that death is necessary. Not just in the abstract but personally. He must cross that low stonewall with no hope of returning. He must cross the final shore.

This story has dragons, despair, joy, loss, discovery and marvelous surprises. Like all of the Earthsea books, it is sparely but beautifully told. The deepest of the first three books, it is an absolute joy. And for a thoughtful, reflecting reader, it might be even more. This is a book that can change a reader's life.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Earthsea is always great, Nov 27 2008
By Steven R. McEvoy "MCWPP" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Farthest Shore (Paperback)
I read most of the Earthsea Cycle as part of a childrens literature course I did back in 1999. This is another book about Ged. But in this one he is the special educator to Lebanner/ Arren.

It is a book about the big questions, such as life and death, and the search for who we are. It is also about what we are to be and the idea of predestination. Ged says to seek to be ones self is rare. It is also that we seek what we dont know in order to be found by our destiny.

In the book darkness is overtaking the world, singers are losing their songs, mages are forgetting their crafts. Men doubt and society is decaying, all because of fear or death. Men are giving up their true names to a lie. They are becoming slaves to a dead master.

Key Notes:
Ged is Master of Roke  Archmage
Lookfar (Ship is back again)
Isles of Myths
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy Classic, Nov 19 2007
By Leah MacFarlane (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
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This is a classic read in the fantasy genre, one that any fan of books by Tolkien should be sure to check out. LeGuin uses a succinct and crisp writing style to bring the world of Earthsea into being. Not to be missed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Child and the Shadow
Whilst I read A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA and THE TOMBS OF ATUAN many times as a child and a teenager, I never read THE FARTHEST SHORE, though I suspect I began it and did not finish... Read more
Published on Jan 8 2004 by leda_au

4.0 out of 5 stars Heavy-duty, serious fantasy. Not for the light-hearted.
In the third entry to the Earthsea series, Ged is now Arch-Mage, and is faced with a new crisis: Magic around the world is failing. Read more
Published on Aug 14 2003 by Godly Gadfly

5.0 out of 5 stars The Battle Against Evil
Evil is prepared to end life as it is known in Earthsea. The world and its wizards are losing their magic, and it is up to Ged powerful Archmage, wizard, to seek out the only one... Read more
Published on Jan 9 2003 by S. K. Leggate

4.0 out of 5 stars As good as the
Ursula Le Guin wrote this very well.It was extremely interesting ,and very absorbing .The plot is straightforward,and
the characters are wonderful . Read more
Published on Dec 24 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction
to high fantasy. If you haven't read this book, go out and buy
it, either in the bookstore, through the mail, on tape, or as an
e-book. I first read it in 1986. Read more
Published on Dec 11 2002 by Blair Colquhoun

5.0 out of 5 stars she does it again
This is yet another awesome story in the Earthsea series. The world is losing all of its magic. Ged, the powerful Archmage, and a young Prince set out to find out why. Read more
Published on Sep 22 2002 by yankeemb7

5.0 out of 5 stars regarding the first chapter.
This book is just as good as the rest of the series, but "The Farthest Shore" stands out for one reason: the first chapter is probably the most beautiful piece of literature ever... Read more
Published on Aug 20 2002 by bluebirdxx

4.0 out of 5 stars Unsatisfying
the promise in this book is never fully realized. As usual, we only get half-glimpses of Earthsea, images of decay, of a human civilization in the throes of strange forces. Read more
Published on Aug 15 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A view from the protagonist to its sidekick.
For the first and second series of the Earthsea, you'll find in this book suddenly Sparrowhawk, the famous Earthsea wizard, is not the protagonist. Read more
Published on Jul 30 2002 by Edward Juan

5.0 out of 5 stars The loss of magic
This may be the best of the Earthsea books, combining subtle, evocative prose with realistic characterization and a pair of equally important, entwined plotlines. Read more
Published on Jul 9 2002 by E. A Solinas

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