Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once
he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power
and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed
a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his
testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed
an ancient dragon, and crossed death''s threshold to
restore the balance.
關於作者:
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929; her parents were the
anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber. She
writes both poetry and prose, including realistic fiction, science
fiction, fantasy, young children''s books, books for young adults,
screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voicetexts for
performance or recording. She has published five books of poetry,
seventeen novels, over a hundred short stories collected in eight
volumes, two collections of essays, eleven books for children, and
two volumes of translation. Several of Le Guin''s major titles have
remained continuously in print for over thirty years. Her best
known fantasy works, the first four Books of Earthsea, have sold
millions of copies in America and England, and have been translated
into sixteen languages. Three of Le Guin''s books have been
finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and
among the many honors her writing has received are the National
Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula awards, the Kafka award,
a Pushcart Prize, the Howard Vursell award of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, and the L.A. Times Robert Kirsch Award.