Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition

Contains the short story, ‘The Daughter of Odren’, published in print for the first time, and the brand new story ‘Firelight’.



Now for the first time ever, all together in one volume, The Books of Earthsea, contains the early short stories, Le Guin’s ‘Earthsea Revisioned’ Oxford lecture, and new Earthsea stories, never before printed. With a new introduction by Le Guin herself, this essential edition will also include over fifty illustrations by renowned artist Charles Vess, specially commissioned and selected by Le Guin, to bring her refined vision of Earthsea and its people to life in a totally new way.



– 1,008 pages

– 56 illustrations (including seven lavishly coloured plate sections)

– maps of Earthsea

– stunningly beautiful endpapers

– Six novels

– 4 short stories

– An essay

Stories include: ‘A Wizard of Earthsea’, ‘The Tombs of Atuan’, ‘The Farthest Shore’, ‘Tehanu’, ‘Tales From Earthsea’, ‘The Other Wind’, ‘The Rule of Names’, ‘The Word of Unbinding’, ‘The Daughter of Odren’, and ‘Earthsea Revisioned: A Lecture at Oxford University’

Format: Hardback
Pages: 1008
Imprint: Gollancz UK
Publication date: 25/10/2018
Illustrator: Vess, Charles