title: Tales from Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 5)
author:  Ursula K. Le Guin 
description: Winner of five Nebula and five Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Newbery, and many other awards, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest authors ever to write science fiction and fantasy. Her greatest creation may be the powerful, beautifully written, and deeply imagined Earthsea Cycle, which inhabits the rarified air at the pinnacle of modern fantasy with J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and Jane Yolen's Chronicles of Great Alta. The books of the Earthsea Cycle are <I>A Wizard of Earthsea</I> (1968), <I>The Tombs of Atuan</I> (1971), <I>The Farthest Shore</I> (1972), the Nebula-winning <I>Tehanu</I> (1990), and now, <I>Tales of Earthsea</I> (2001).
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  TALES FROM
  
  
  
  
  
  EARTHSEA
  
  
  
  
  
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  
  “Darkrose and Diamond” first appeared in
  
  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
  
  Copyright © 1999 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
  
  “Dragonfly” first appeared in Legends.
  
  Copyright © 1997 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-
  
  Tales from Earthsea / Ursula K. Le Guin.-
  
  1st ed. p. cm.
  
  Contents:
  
  The finder-
  
  Darkrose and Diamond-
  
  The bones of the earth-
  
  On the high marsh-
  
  Dragonfly-
  
  A description of Earthsea.
  
  Summary: Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of
  events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as
  an essay on the people, languages, history and magic of the place.
  
  ISBN 0-15-100561-3 I. Fantasy fiction, American, [I. Fantasy. 2. Short
  stories.] I. Title.
  
  PZ7.L52I5 Tal 2001 [Fic]-dc21 2001016554
  
  Designed by Linda Lockowitz
  
  Text set in Adobe Jenson
  
  First edition ACBGIKJHFDB
  
  Printed in the