National Endowment of the Arts - The Big Read

A Wizard of Earthsea
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Works Cited

Sources

Bucknall, Barbara J. Ursula K. Le Guin. New York: Ungar, 1981.

Clute, John, and John Grant. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Clute, John, and Peter Nicholls. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Cummins, Elizabeth. Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.

Excerpts from A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 1968, 1996 by The Inter-Vivos Trust for the Le Guin Children. Reprinted by permision of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Spivack, Charlotte. Ursula K. Le Guin. Boston: Twayne, 1984.

Storr, Anthony, ed. The Essential Jung. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy-Stories" (1938), in Tree and Leaf. London: Allen and Unwin, 1964.

Waggoner, Diana. The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy. New York: Atheneum, 1978. 

Acknowledgments

Sarah Bainter Cunningham, PhD, NEA Director of Arts Education

Writer: Michael Dirda for the National Endowment for the Arts, with a introduction by Dana Gioia

Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, writes frequently about fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University and is the author of the memoir An Open Book (2003) and of four collections of essays: Readings (2000), Bound to Please (2005), Book by Book (2006), and Classics for Pleasure (2007).

Series Editor: Molly Thomas-Hicks for the National Endowment for the Arts

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