John Plotz is Mandel Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and editor of the B-Sides feature in Public Books as well as B-Side Books (Columbia University Press, 2021). He co-hosts two podcasts: Novel Dialogue and Recall This Book. His books include The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (University of California Press, 2000), Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Semi-Detached: Aesthetic Experience from Dickens to Keaton (Princeton University Press, 2017) He is among the co-founders of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative.

• List of Illusrations Introduction: Reading and Rereading Le Guin 1: Earthsea and the Fantasy Tradition 2: Le Guin's First Earthsea 3: Earthsea Revisited 4: My Earthsea Notes Works Cited Index

[John Plotz] does exactly what a book of this kind should do: he whets our appetite for Le Guin's books, inspiring us to step through that invisible portal into the world of Earthsea and lose ourselves in the beautiful prose of Le Guin's fiction, and the world of the imagination such prose so effortlessly conjures.

John Plotz is Mandel Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and editor of the B-Sides feature in Public Books as well as B-Side Books (Columbia University Press, 2021). He co-hosts two podcasts: Novel Dialogue and Recall This Book. His books include The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (University of California Press, 2000), Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Semi-Detached: Aesthetic Experience from Dickens to Keaton (Princeton University Press, 2017) He is among the co-founders of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative.

• List of Illusrations Introduction: Reading and Rereading Le Guin 1: Earthsea and the Fantasy Tradition 2: Le Guin's First Earthsea 3: Earthsea Revisited 4: My Earthsea Notes Works Cited Index

[John Plotz] does exactly what a book of this kind should do: he whets our appetite for Le Guin's books, inspiring us to step through that invisible portal into the world of Earthsea and lose ourselves in the beautiful prose of Le Guin's fiction, and the world of the imagination such prose so effortlessly conjures.

John Plotz is Mandel Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and editor of the B-Sides feature in Public Books as well as B-Side Books (Columbia University Press, 2021). He co-hosts two podcasts: Novel Dialogue and Recall This Book. His books include The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (University of California Press, 2000), Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Semi-Detached: Aesthetic Experience from Dickens to Keaton (Princeton University Press, 2017) He is among the co-founders of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative.

• List of Illusrations Introduction: Reading and Rereading Le Guin 1: Earthsea and the Fantasy Tradition 2: Le Guin's First Earthsea 3: Earthsea Revisited 4: My Earthsea Notes Works Cited Index

[John Plotz] does exactly what a book of this kind should do: he whets our appetite for Le Guin's books, inspiring us to step through that invisible portal into the world of Earthsea and lose ourselves in the beautiful prose of Le Guin's fiction, and the world of the imagination such prose so effortlessly conjures.