A Wizard of Earthsea
内容简介
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea,but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a recklessyouth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tamperedwith long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadowupon the world. This is the tale of his testing,how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed anancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold torestore the balance.
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作者简介
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929; her parents were theanthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber. Shewrites both poetry and prose, including realistic fiction, sciencefiction, fantasy, young children's books, books for young adults,screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voicetexts forperformance or recording. She has published five books of poetry,seventeen novels, over a hundred short stories (collected in eightvolumes), two collections of essays, eleven books for children, andtwo volumes of translation. Several of Le Guin's major titles haveremained continuously in print for over thirty years. Her bestknown fantasy works, the first four Books of Earthsea, have soldmillions of copies in America and England, and have been translatedinto sixteen languages. Three of Le Guin's books have beenfinalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, andamong the many honors her writing has received are the NationalBook Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula awards, the Kafka award,a Pushcart Prize, the Howard Vursell award of the American Academyof Arts and Letters, and the L.A. Times Robert Kirsch Award.
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读书文摘
你还年幼，以为法师无所不能。我以前也这么认为。我们每个人都曾经有那种想法。 但事实是，一个人其正的力量若增强，知识若拓宽，他得以依循的路途反而变窄。到最後他什麽也不挑拣，只能全心从事必须做的事…… 以前我太心急，现在才会没有多馀的时间。我把心中盼望的阳光、城市、遥远的异域，都拿去换一丁点力量、一个黑影、还有黑暗了。
她开始理解自由的分量。自由是一种沉重的负担，是享受自由的人心上一项沉重而奇怪的负担。要享受自由并不容易，它不是天赐的礼物，而是一种选择，而且也许是困难的抉择。前方的路通向光明，但沉重的旅者却也许永远不能到达光明的彼岸。
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