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A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world. In print for more than three decades and translated into dozens of languages, here is the audio release of the first book in the earthsea trilogy. A wizard of earthsea 1 the earthsea cycle mass market paperback the books of earthsea. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Le guins a wizard of earthsea 1968 is a heroic fantasy classic, telling the tale of the growth of ged, the future archmage of earthsea, from a proud and reckless boy hungry for knowledge and power. A wizard of earthsea is the first installment of ursula k. A wizard of earthsea, first in a tetralogy that includes the tombs of atuan and the farthest shore, introduces the listener to ged, the greatest sorcerer in all earthsea.
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