Editing Earthsea (section)

== Series ==
=== Books ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; min-height: 18em"
! style="min-width: 10em" | Book !! style="min-width: 3em" | Year !! Publisher
|-
| ''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]'' || 1968 || Parnassus
|-
| ''[[The Tombs of Atuan]]'' || 1971{{efn|''The Tombs of Atuan'' previously appeared in the Winter 1970 issue of ''[[Worlds of Fantasy]]'' with illustrations and the magazine cover picture by [[Jack Gaughan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?151901|title=ISFDB: Worlds of Fantasy, Winter 1970}}</ref>}} || rowspan=3 | [[Atheneum Books|Atheneum]]
|-
| ''[[The Farthest Shore]]'' || 1972
|-
| ''[[Tehanu]]'' || 1990
|-
| ''[[Tales from Earthsea]]'' ||  2001 || rowspan=2 | [[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt]]
|-
| ''[[The Other Wind]]'' || 2001
|}

Le Guin originally intended for ''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]'' to be a standalone novel, but she wrote ''[[The Tombs of Atuan]]'' as a sequel after considering the loose ends in the first book; ''[[The Farthest Shore]]'' followed after further consideration. These three books were written in quick succession, from 1968 to 1972, and are sometimes seen as the "original trilogy".{{sfnp|Cadden|2005|pp=80–81}}{{sfnp|Bernardo|Murphy|2006|p=95}} Nearly twenty years later, Le Guin wrote a fourth book, ''[[Tehanu]]'' (1990), and followed it with ''[[Tales from Earthsea]]'' and ''[[The Other Wind]]'' in 2001. The latter three books are sometimes referred to as the "second trilogy".{{sfnp|Bernardo|Murphy|2006|p=95}}{{sfnp|Cadden|2005|pp=6, 7, 89, 96}} The series as a whole is known as the ''Earthsea Cycle'', and was published in a single volume in 2018 as ''The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition'', with art by Charles Vess.<ref>{{isfdb contents |id=678150 |title=The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition}}.</ref>

=== Short stories ===

Le Guin published nine short stories of Earthsea. Seven appear in two collections of her work (and some have been reissued elsewhere). Two early stories were originally published in 1964, and were collected in ''[[The Wind's Twelve Quarters]]'' ([[Harper & Row]], 1975). These helped to define the setting of Earthsea. Five much later stories were collected in ''[[Tales from Earthsea]]'' (Harcourt, 2001), where three were original.<ref name=isfdb /> In October 2014, a new novella set in Earthsea was published as a stand-alone, "The Daughter of Odren".<ref name=Odren-hmhco>{{cite web |title=The Daughter of Odren |url=http://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/The-Daughter-of-Odren/9780544358386 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |via=hmco.com |access-date=2015-08-12 |location=Boston |quote=42 pages |archive-date=May 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230509210656/https://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/The-Daughter-of-Odren/9780544358386 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.amazon.com/The-Daughter-Odren-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B00O70WOD0 "The Daughter of Odren (Kindle Single)"]. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-08-13. Quote: "Master storyteller Ursula LeGuin takes readers back to Earthsea"; 31 pages; age level 12 and up.</ref> A final 12-page short story, "Firelight", was published in June 2018, covering the last days of Ged.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781473223554|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180514010101/https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn%3D9781473223554|title= The Books of Earthsea| publisher= Orion Books |access-date=May 14, 2018|archive-date=May 14, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''Tales from Earthsea'' also includes about 30 pages of fictional reference material titled "A Description of Earthsea" (2001).<ref name=isfdb>{{cite web| url= http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?4220 |title= Earthsea Cycle – Series Bibliography| work= [[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]| via= isfdb.org| access-date= 2012-04-09}}</ref>

* "[[The Word of Unbinding]]", ''[[Fantastic Stories of Imagination]]'', January 1964 <sup>[[#+Q|'''+Q''']]</sup>
* "[[The Rule of Names]]", ''Fantastic Stories of Imagination'', April 1964<sup> [[#+Q|'''+Q''']]</sup>
* "Dragonfly", ''[[Legends (anthology)|Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy]]'', [[Tor Books]], 1998 <sup>[[#+T|'''+T''']]</sup>
* "Darkrose and Diamond", ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]'', Oct-Nov 1999 <sup>[[#+T|'''+T''']]</sup>
* "The Bones of the Earth" (2001) <sup>[[#T|'''T''']]</sup>
* "The Finder" (2001) <sup>[[#T|'''T''']]</sup>
* "On The High Marsh" (2001) <sup>[[#T|'''T''']]</sup>
* "The Daughter of Odren" (2014) <ref name=Odren-hmhco /> <sup>[[#T|'''EB''']]</sup>
* "Firelight", ''[[Paris Review]]'', Summer 2018, issue 225<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hachette.com.au/ursula-k-le-guin/the-books-of-earthsea|title=50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea|publisher=Hachette Australia|access-date=May 14, 2018}}</ref>

:'''Key:'''
:{{anchor|+Q}}<sup>'''+Q'''</sup> Collected in ''The Wind's Twelve Quarters''
:{{anchor|+T}}<sup>'''+T'''</sup> Collected in ''Tales from Earthsea''
:{{anchor|T}}<sup>'''T'''</sup> &nbsp; Original to ''Tales from Earthsea''
:{{anchor|T}}<sup>'''EB'''</sup> &nbsp; Originally released as a stand-alone eBook<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ursulakleguin.com/the-daughter-of-odren | title=Ursula K. Le Guin — the Daughter of Odren }}</ref>
:All of the stories are included in ''The Books of Earthsea''.

=== Unsubmitted story ===
After "The Rule of Names" and before "A Wizard of Earthsea", Le Guin wrote a long story about a prince in search of the Ultimate. He travels south-west from Havnor through the archipelago into the open sea. There he finds a raft-colony and sea-people, whom he joins in the sea. The prince wears out, sinks and finds the Ultimate. This story was never submitted for publication because "it never worked out itself well".<ref>"Dreams Must Explain Themselves" by Ursula Le Guin in ''[[Algol (fanzine)|Algol]]'' 21, Tenth Anniversary Issue, (November 1973; p. 8)</ref> However, the theme of a raft-colony and sea-people was later taken up as an important ingredient in the plot of ''[[The Farthest Shore]]''.