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Le Guin</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">The Farthest Shore <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Farthest+Shore&rft.author=%5B%5BUrsula+K.+Le+Guin%5D%5D&rft.date=1972&rft.pub=%5B%5BAtheneum+Books%5D%5D&rft.place=United+States&rft.pages=223+pp+%28first+edition%29&rft.series=%5B%5BEarthsea+%28book+series%29%7CEarthsea%5D%5D&rft_id=info:oclcnum/481359"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:TheFarthestShore(1stEd).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e3/TheFarthestShore%281stEd%29.jpg/200px-TheFarthestShore%281stEd%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="334" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/TheFarthestShore%281stEd%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="418" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First edition cover</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cover artist</th><td class="infobox-data">Gail Garraty<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Earthsea_(book_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Earthsea (book series)">Earthsea</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy fiction">Fantasy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bildungsroman" title="Bildungsroman">Bildungsroman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atheneum_Books" title="Atheneum Books">Atheneum Books</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1972</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (<a href="/wiki/Hardcover" title="Hardcover">hardcover</a> & <a href="/wiki/Paperback" title="Paperback">paperback</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">223 pp (first edition)<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-689-30054-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-689-30054-9">0-689-30054-9</a> <sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/481359">481359</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">PZ7.L5215 Far</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tombs_of_Atuan" title="The Tombs of Atuan">The Tombs of Atuan</a> </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Tehanu" title="Tehanu">Tehanu</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Farthest Shore</b></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a> novel by the American author <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a>, first published by Atheneum in 1972. It is the third book in the series commonly called the <a href="/wiki/Earthsea" title="Earthsea">Earthsea Cycle</a>. As the next Earthsea novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Tehanu" title="Tehanu">Tehanu</a></i>, would not be released until 1990, <i>The Farthest Shore</i> is sometimes referred to as the final book in the so-called Earthsea trilogy, beginning with <i><a href="/wiki/A_Wizard_of_Earthsea" title="A Wizard of Earthsea">A Wizard of Earthsea</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tombs_of_Atuan" title="The Tombs of Atuan">The Tombs of Atuan</a>.</i> Decades later, <i>The Farthest Shore</i> follows the wizard Ged in his final adventure. </p><p><i>The Farthest Shore</i> won the 1973 <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature" title="National Book Award for Young People's Literature">National Book Award in category Children's Books</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nba1973_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nba1973-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Studio_Ghibli" title="Studio Ghibli">Studio Ghibli</a>'s animated film <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea_(film)" title="Tales from Earthsea (film)">Tales from Earthsea</a></i> was based primarily on this novel.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Farthest_Shore&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An ominous, inexplicable malaise is spreading throughout Earthsea. Magic is losing its power; songs are being forgotten; people and animals are sickening or going mad. Accompanied by Arren, the young Prince of <a href="/wiki/Islands_of_Earthsea" class="mw-redirect" title="Islands of Earthsea">Enlad</a>, the Archmage <a href="/wiki/Ged_(fictional_character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ged (fictional character)">Ged</a> leaves Roke Island to find the cause. On his boat <i>Lookfar</i>, they sail south to Hort Town, where they encounter a drug addled wizard called Hare. They realize that Hare and many others are under the dream-spell of a powerful wizard who promises them life after death at the cost of their magic, their identity, and all names, that is, all reality. Ged and Arren continue southwest to the island of Lorbanery, once famous for its dyed silk, but the magic of dyeing has been lost and the local people are listless and hostile. </p><p>Fleeing the stifling despair, Ged and Arren keep on southwest to the furthest islands of the Reaches. Arren is drawn under the influence of the dark wizard, and when Ged is injured by hostile islanders, Arren cannot rouse himself to help. As Ged's life ebbs, and they drift into the open ocean, where they are saved by the Raft People, nomads who live on great rafts beyond any land. The spreading evil has not yet reached them, and they nurse Ged and Arren back to health. At the midwinter festival, the sickness arrives, and the singers are struck dumb, unable to remember the songs. </p><p>The dragon Orm Embar arrives on the wind, and begs Ged to sail to Selidor, the westernmost of all islands, where the dark wizard is destroying the dragons, beings who embody magic. Ged and Arren voyage past the Dragons' Run south of Selidor, encountering dragons flying about and devouring each other in a state of madness. On Selidor, Orm Embar is waiting for them, but he too has lost the power of speech. After a search, they find the wizard in a house of dragon bones at the western tip of Selidor – the end of the world. </p><p>Ged recognises the wizard as Cob, a dark mage whom he defeated many years before. After his defeat, Cob became expert in the dark arts of <a href="/wiki/Necromancy" title="Necromancy">necromancy</a>, desperate to escape death and live forever. In doing so, he has opened a breach between worlds which is sucking away all life. As Cob paralyzes Ged with the staff of a long-dead mage, Orm Embar impales himself on it, crushing Cob in a final effort. But the undead Cob cannot be killed, and he crawls back to the Dry Land of the dead, pursued by Ged and Arren. In the Dry Land, Ged manages to defeat Cob and closes the breach in the world, but it requires the sacrifice of all his magic power. </p><p>They travel even further, crawling over the Mountains of Pain back to the living world, where the eldest dragon Kalessin is waiting. He flies them to Roke, leaving Ged on his childhood home of Gont Island. Arren has fulfilled the centuries-old prediction of the last King of Earthsea: "He shall inherit my throne who has crossed the dark land living and come to the far shores of the day." Arren will reunite the fractious islands as the future King Lebannen (his true name). </p><p>Le Guin originally offered two endings to the story. In one, after Lebannen's coronation, Ged sails alone out into the <a href="/wiki/Ocean" title="Ocean">ocean</a> and is never heard from again. In the other, Ged returns to the forest of his home island of Gont. In 1990, seventeen years after the publication of <i>The Farthest Shore</i>, Le Guin opted for the second ending when she continued the story in <i><a href="/wiki/Tehanu" title="Tehanu">Tehanu</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_characters">Major characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Farthest_Shore&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Major characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Earthsea" title="List of characters in Earthsea">List of characters in Earthsea</a></div> <dl><dt><b>Cob</b></dt> <dd>A sorcerer whom Ged has met before.</dd> <dt><b><a href="/wiki/Ged_(Earthsea)" title="Ged (Earthsea)">Ged</a></b></dt> <dd>Archmage of Roke. Called <i>Sparrowhawk</i>.</dd> <dt><b>Kalessin</b></dt> <dd>The eldest dragon.</dd> <dt><b>Lebannen</b></dt> <dd>Young prince of Enlad. The name means "rowan tree" in the Old Speech. Called <i>Arren</i>.</dd> <dt><b>Orm Embar</b></dt> <dd>A powerful dragon of the West Reach descended from <i>Orm</i>.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Farthest_Shore&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Power_and_responsibility">Power and responsibility</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Farthest_Shore&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Power and responsibility"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like both previous books in the trilogy, <i>The Farthest Shore</i> is a <a href="/wiki/Bildungsroman" title="Bildungsroman">bildungsroman</a>. The story is told mostly from the point of view of Arren, who develops from the boy who stands overawed in front of the masters of Roke, to the man who addresses dragons with confidence on Selidor, and who will eventually become the first King in centuries and unify the world of Earthsea. </p><p>Ged has also matured. He is no longer the impetuous boy who had himself opened a crack between the worlds in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Wizard_of_Earthsea" title="A Wizard of Earthsea">A Wizard of Earthsea</a></i>, or the supremely confident young man who sailed the Dragon's Run and went alone into <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tombs_of_Atuan" title="The Tombs of Atuan">The Tombs of Atuan</a></i>. Not glory, but necessity alone guides his actions now. Ged will no longer wield magic for the thrill of power or fame or self-righteousness, and tells the impetuous Arren: "do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Confronting_one's_shadow"><span id="Confronting_one.27s_shadow"></span>Confronting one's shadow</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Farthest_Shore&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Confronting one's shadow"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a sense, Cob is Ged's <a href="/wiki/Alter_ego" title="Alter ego">alter ego</a> – a Ged who did not turn back from the dangerous road of summoning the dead, which tempted Ged in his youth, but continued to its ultimate conclusion. Thus, Ged's final confrontation with Cob and the closing of the hole between the worlds reprises his confrontation with the Shadow in the first book, who was Ged's alter ego in a more explicit way. Ged's closing of that evil hole, at the cost of completely losing his power (and very nearly his life), can also be considered as fulfilling his wish "to undo the evil" of his own necromantic spell, which as a youth he had expressed to then-Archmage Gensher (and which, as the Archmage told him, he was at the time not capable of achieving). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Balance">Balance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Farthest_Shore&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Balance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With a greater understanding of the Balance<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Equilibrium that encompasses Earthsea (fundamental parts of <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoism</a>, a philosophy Le Guin encourages in her works), and how life comes from death as much as death comes from life (death itself being a balancing force in the book<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), Ged is portrayed as a wiser and sager archmage. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Farthest_Shore&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reviewing the novel for a genre audience, <a href="/wiki/Lester_del_Rey" title="Lester del Rey">Lester del Rey</a> reported that it was "fantasy with a logic of execution that is usually found only in science fiction ... rich in ideas, color and inventions".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Farthest_Shore&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7655"><i>The Farthest Shore</i></a> title listing at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nba1973-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nba1973_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1973">"National Book Awards – 1973"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Foundation" title="National Book Foundation">National Book Foundation</a>. Retrieved 2012-02-21.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bradshaw, Peter. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/aug/03/family.sciencefictionandfantasy">Movie review</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. Published August 2, 2007. Accessed November 18, 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFByrne1995" class="citation book cs1">Byrne, Deirdre Cassandra (November 1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/16246/thesis_byrne_dc.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y"><i>Selves And Others: The Politics of Difference in the Writings of Ursula Kroeber Le Guin</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. University of South Africa (Ph. D. thesis). pp. 303–304.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Selves+And+Others%3A+The+Politics+of+Difference+in+the+Writings+of+Ursula+Kroeber+Le+Guin&rft.pages=303-304&rft.pub=University+of+South+Africa+%28Ph.+D.+thesis%29&rft.date=1995-11&rft.aulast=Byrne&rft.aufirst=Deirdre+Cassandra&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fuir.unisa.ac.za%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10500%2F16246%2Fthesis_byrne_dc.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1%26isAllowed%3Dy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Farthest+Shore" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWatson1975" class="citation journal cs1">Watson, Ian (March 1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/watson5art.htm">"Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator"</a>. <i>Science Fiction Studies</i>. <b>2</b> (1). <q>With the completion of the trilogy, in The Furthest Shore, balance is conserved—yet still within a world of magic.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Science+Fiction+Studies&rft.atitle=Le+Guin%27s+Lathe+of+Heaven+and+the+Role+of+Dick%3A+The+False+Reality+as+Mediator&rft.volume=2&rft.issue=1&rft.date=1975-03&rft.aulast=Watson&rft.aufirst=Ian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.depauw.edu%2Fsfs%2Fbackissues%2F5%2Fwatson5art.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Farthest+Shore" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLebow2012" class="citation book cs1">Lebow, Richard Ned (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=clIgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA264"><i>The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves</i></a>. 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New York, NY: Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-415-99527-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-415-99527-2"><bdi>0-415-99527-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ursula+K.+Le+Guin+Beyond+Genre%3A+Fiction+for+Children+and+Adults&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-415-99527-2&rft.aulast=Cadden&rft.aufirst=Mike&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Farthest+Shore" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDrout2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Michael_D._C._Drout" title="Michael D. C. Drout">Drout, Michael</a> (2006). <i>Of Sorcerers and Men: Tolkien and the Roots of Modern Fantasy Literature</i> (1st ed.). China: Barnes & Noble. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7607-8523-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7607-8523-2"><bdi>978-0-7607-8523-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Of+Sorcerers+and+Men%3A+Tolkien+and+the+Roots+of+Modern+Fantasy+Literature&rft.place=China&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Barnes+%26+Noble&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-7607-8523-2&rft.aulast=Drout&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Farthest+Shore" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMartin2009" class="citation book cs1">Martin, Philip (2009). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/guidetofantasyli0000mart"><i>A Guide to Fantasy Literature: Thoughts on Stories of Wonder & Enchantment</i></a></span> (1st ed.). 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Le Guin bibliography">Bibliography</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Earthsea" title="Earthsea">Earthsea</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Wizard_of_Earthsea" title="A Wizard of Earthsea">A Wizard of Earthsea</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tombs_of_Atuan" title="The Tombs of Atuan">The Tombs of Atuan</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Farthest Shore</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tehanu" title="Tehanu">Tehanu</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Other_Wind" title="The Other Wind">The Other Wind</a></i> (2001)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Word_of_Unbinding" title="The Word of Unbinding">The Word of Unbinding</a>" (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Rule_of_Names" title="The Rule of Names">The Rule of Names</a>" (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dragonfly_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dragonfly (short story) (page does not exist)">Dragonfly</a>" (1997)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Darkrose_and_Diamond&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Darkrose and Diamond (page does not exist)">Darkrose and Diamond</a>" (1999)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Daughter_of_Odren&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Daughter of Odren (page does not exist)">The Daughter of Odren</a>" (2014)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Firelight_(short_story)" class="mw-redirect" title="Firelight (short story)">Firelight</a>" (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea" title="Tales from Earthsea">Tales from Earthsea</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Books_of_Earthsea" title="The Books of Earthsea">The Books of Earthsea</a></i> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Earthsea_(miniseries)" title="Earthsea (miniseries)"><i>Earthsea</i> (miniseries)</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea_(film)" title="Tales from Earthsea (film)"><i>Tales from Earthsea</i> (film)</a> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Earthsea_(universe)" title="Earthsea (universe)">Universe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Earthsea" title="List of characters in Earthsea">Characters</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ged_(Earthsea)" title="Ged (Earthsea)">Ged</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin_bibliography#Earthsea_Revisioned" title="Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography">Earthsea Revisioned</a></i> (1993)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Hainish_Cycle" title="Hainish Cycle">Hainish <br /> Cycle</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rocannon%27s_World" title="Rocannon's World">Rocannon's World</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Planet_of_Exile" title="Planet of Exile">Planet of Exile</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/City_of_Illusions" title="City of Illusions">City of Illusions</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness" title="The Left Hand of Darkness">The Left Hand of Darkness</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dispossessed" title="The Dispossessed">The Dispossessed</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest" title="The Word for World Is Forest">The Word for World Is Forest</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Four_Ways_to_Forgiveness" title="Four Ways to Forgiveness">Four Ways to Forgiveness</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Telling" title="The Telling">The Telling</a></i> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Dowry_of_Angyar" title="The Dowry of Angyar">The Dowry of Angyar</a>" (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Winter%27s_King" title="Winter's King">Winter's King</a>" (1969)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Vaster_than_Empires_and_More_Slow" title="Vaster than Empires and More Slow">Vaster than Empires and More Slow</a>" (1971)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Day_Before_the_Revolution" title="The Day Before the Revolution">The Day Before the Revolution</a>" (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shobies%27_Story" title="The Shobies' Story">The Shobies' Story</a></i> (1990)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Matter_of_Seggri" title="The Matter of Seggri">The Matter of Seggri</a>" (1994)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Man_of_the_People_(short_story)" title="A Man of the People (short story)">A Man of the People</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Karhide" title="Coming of Age in Karhide">Coming of Age in Karhide</a>" (1995)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Mountain_Ways&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mountain Ways (page does not exist)">Mountain Ways</a>" (1996)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Old_Music_and_the_Slave_Women" title="Old Music and the Slave Women">Old Music and the Slave Women</a>" (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ansible" title="Ansible">Ansible</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Annals_of_the_Western_Shore" title="Annals of the Western Shore">Annals of the Western Shore</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Novels" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gifts_(novel)" title="Gifts (novel)">Gifts</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Voices_(Le_Guin_novel)" title="Voices (Le Guin novel)">Voices</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Powers_(novel)" title="Powers (novel)">Powers</a></i> (2007)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other <br /> fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven" title="The Lathe of Heaven">The Lathe of Heaven</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Very_Far_Away_from_Anywhere_Else" title="Very Far Away from Anywhere Else">Very Far Away from Anywhere Else</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_Heron" title="The Eye of the Heron">The Eye of the Heron</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Malafrena" title="Malafrena">Malafrena</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beginning_Place" title="The Beginning Place">The Beginning Place</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Always_Coming_Home" title="Always Coming Home">Always Coming Home</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lavinia_(novel)" title="Lavinia (novel)">Lavinia</a></i> (2008)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas" title="The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas">The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas</a>" (1973)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Diary_of_the_Rose" title="The Diary of the Rose">The Diary of the Rose</a>" (1976)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Wife%27s_Story" title="The Wife's Story">The Wife's Story</a>" (1982)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Paradises_Lost" title="Paradises Lost">Paradises Lost</a>" (2002)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wind%27s_Twelve_Quarters" title="The Wind's Twelve Quarters">The Wind's Twelve Quarters</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orsinian_Tales" title="Orsinian Tales">Orsinian Tales</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Compass_Rose" title="The Compass Rose">The Compass Rose</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Gals_and_Other_Animal_Presences" title="Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences">Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Fisherman_of_the_Inland_Sea" title="A 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