![]() ![]() However, despite these hallmarks of children’s fictions, this is a book with a density of theme and topic that could prove challenging for an undergraduate university student to fully disentangle. Although here we see Le Guin’s restlessness with convention as she pushes against the Campbellian structure of the coming of age story, featuring a protagonist who never refuses a call and who returns home half-way through his quest only to leave again. While told in third person, the narration is very centered on Ged and we understand the story almost entirely from his singular point of view.Īnd, of course, it is a coming of age story. Le Guin is, excepting one notable adventure, very parsimonious with her deployment of characters, and very few figures of note arise in the first half of the book who don’t play a role in the second. ![]() It’s a novel that focuses on a single subject and with a very minimal cast of characters. It’s a short novel, barely 56,500 words long, and the edition I read (with the cover featured as my image) features large, clearly printed type to aid in ease of reading. ![]() Technically it’s a children’s book.Īnd I mean, on the surface, there’s certain qualities that A Wizard of Earthsea shares with children’s lit that make the categorization almost fit. Alone among authors in the 20th century, only Ursula Le Guin could have possibly written a book like A Wizard of Earthsea. ![]()
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