Tales from Earthsea
- 335
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- Locus Award for Best Collection
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Our view
“Tales from Earthsea” deepens the archipelago’s history through a handful of stories, framed by Le Guin’s own account of its peoples and past. The tales are absorbing and carry the themes of the novels further; some readers see a recurring pattern of worn-out men who find rest with a woman, and some find one or two stories weaker. Meant to accompany the five Earthsea novels, it means most to those who have read them.
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About the book
Tales from Earthsea is a collection of fantasy stories and essays by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. The collection serves as a companion to the five novels of the Earthsea cycle, all set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea.
Reading order · Earthsea series
Full order & progress →- A Wizard of EarthseaStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Tombs of Atuan
8.18.1 / 10 - The Farthest Shore
8.18.1 / 10 - Tehanu
8.08.0 / 10 - Tales from EarthseaThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - The Other Wind
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 219 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 60% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 24 | 11% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 5 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 190 | 87% |
Frequently asked
How long is Tales from Earthsea?
It has 335 pages — shorter than 90% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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