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The Earthsea Quartet’s author is Ursula Le Guin and The Wizard of Earthsea book was first published by Puffin in 1971 which I also think has something to do with Penguin Books as this book mentions them too. However the four books that she wrote about The Earthsea was first published in one volume by Puffin Books in 1993. 

Also when I told my mother that The Wizard of Earthsea was first published as a Puffin Book in the year that I was born she told me that I was meant to have the book, and The Earthsea Quartet’s ISBN is: 014 03. 4803 4 and so far I have read the first two stories in The Earthsea Quartet and they are The Wizard of Earthsea, and The Tombs of Atuan, and the other two stories are called The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu.

This book was also recommended to me by my sister Liss as she thought it be a book that I’ll enjoy and she wasn’t wrong. As in The Wizard of Earthsea we are introduced to a boy whose mother named Duny before she died and when he was a baby he was looked after by the local witch that also happens to be his mother’s sister. Anyway when he was still a kid but old enough to look after himself this witch didn’t bother herself about him anymore until he made the goats that he looked after follow him by saying words that he had heard this witch say which happened by chance. However he didn’t know how to free the goats of the spell and as he got scared he ran to the village that he lived in which was Gont and as the witch knew that the goats were under a spell she freed them and then after that she taught Duny all she knew about magic.

Duny was also a very clever and talented boy, and when his name gets changed to his true name, and this was sometime after he had saved his village from being attacked more severely he then goes off with another wizard by the name of Ogion who had heard what the boy that is now named Ged had done and tries to teach him by example.

But as Ged thought that Ogion hasn’t taught him anything at the time his master then sends him on his way to a wizard school as that was what Ged wanted: I really enjoyed reading The Wizard of Earthsea.