Above all, the beauty and depth of these books has established their lasting legacy in fantasy. Le Guin's profound study of Taoism is also a major feature of the trilogy. The Earthsea books have become one of the most influential series in post-Tolkien fantasy despite, or perhaps because of, their consciously non-Western worldbuilding: Earthsea is an archipelago inhabited by characters who are not white, with no relation to a vaguely disguised Europe. Le Guin would pick the series up again much later with TEHANU (1990). The first three books in the Earthsea series, A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA, THE TOMBS OF ATUAN, and THE FARTHEST SHORE, are a fantastical bildungsroman, following the education and growing power of the wizard Ged. Set of the first UK editions of the first three books in the acclaimed Earthsea series, about a boy who attends a wizard school decades before Harry Potter - the first two books signed by Le Guin.
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