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give you the links to the entire first set. You may find them providing helpful or interesting perspective as you read (or reread <i>A Wizard of Earthsea</i>). Or perhaps, if you haven’t read the book, they may entice you into doing so! At any rate, here they are:</p><ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/W32ms-3oHE4">Magical Power in Earthsea</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/3ri9d4BUqS8">Magic, Mages, and Roke Island</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/S3ZWoE1lI1U">Danger & Temptations of Power</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/A7dVCmCudEs">True Names of Things</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/yHdk9JRktwk">Understanding The Equilibrium</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/RNTIzxAKZr0">Ged’s Pride and Humbling</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/9y0dCdMZS8Q">Bringing Shadows Into World</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/HAfMp2kcyx8">The Dragons of Pendor</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/FLnTeuKrKqs">Vetch’s Friendship With Ged</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/P-fh_M3Zg_Q">Fleeing and Facing the Shadow</a></li></ul><p id="b51b">I hope that you enjoy them!</p><p id="82a4">If you’d like to see the sets of videos on the following four books, here they are.</p><div id="1801" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/eleven-videos-on-ursula-k-leguins-the-tombs-of-atuan-e7837d52ba43"> <div> <div> <h2>Eleven Videos on Ursula K. Leguin’s the Tombs of Atuan</h2> <div><h3>free video lectures exploring themes, plot, characters and the narrative world of Leguin’s second Earthsea novel</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*NI-C3ihAnJ7qB7YfaKMPtw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="466e" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/twelve-videos-on-ursula-k-leguins-the-farthest-shore-b98e8c6be385"> <div> <div> <h2>Twelve Videos on Ursula K. Leguin’s The Farthest Shore</h2> <div><h3>free video lectures exploring themes, plot, characters and the narrative world of Leguin’s third Earthsea novel</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*fv-Sucn5obN_Tm-hCv8i0g.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="4625" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/twelve-videos-on-ursula-k-leguins-tehanu-2e7584657e87">

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Ten Videos on Ursula K. Leguin’s A Wizard Of Earthsea

free online video lectures exploring themes, plot, characters and the narrative world of Leguin’s first Earthsea novel

The middle school me who first read through Ursula K. Leguin’s Earthsea trilogy of novels — A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, and the Farthest Shore — would doubtless be surprised to find his much later fifty-something self not only still rereading those stories, but leading college students into them.

This semester, I am teaching an online course, “Philosophy and Fantasy: Leguin’s Earthsea”, at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Equipped with the recently published — and massive (5.4 lbs!) — omnibus volume that gathers all the books and stories of Earthsea along with Charles Vess’ illustrations and Leguin’s own reflections and reminiscences, we are working our way through the entirety of her Earthsea writings.

If you enjoy fantasy, and like it with darkness and depth, but also thoughtfulness and wisdom, you will definitely want to read Leguin’s novels and short stories set within — exploring and expanding — the narrative universe of Earthsea. Each of the six books in the series are short, especially by comparison to contemporary fantasy tomes that often number several hundred pages. Leguin is an excellent and evocative writer but one who deliberately works with straightforward prose.

I have made it a practice over the last decade when teaching classes — whether face to face or online — to develop a stock of videos focused on key aspects of the texts we study. These often take the form of “core concept” videos in my Philosophy classes, but for this course, I decided to start a new series of videos, which I call “speculative fiction studies”.

Right now, what’s available to the public are the series of ten 15–25 minute videos I produced covering key aspects of the first novel, A Wizard of Earthsea. If you’re a subscriber to my YouTube channel, or you follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, you’ll see the next sets of videos on the later books as they roll out.

Right now, however, I’m going to give you the links to the entire first set. You may find them providing helpful or interesting perspective as you read (or reread A Wizard of Earthsea). Or perhaps, if you haven’t read the book, they may entice you into doing so! At any rate, here they are:

I hope that you enjoy them!

If you’d like to see the sets of videos on the following four books, here they are.

I’m Gregory B. Sadler, the president of ReasonIO, the editor of Stoicism Today, a speaker, writer, and a producer of highly popular YouTube videos on classic and contemporary philosophy. I teach at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and offer classes to the wider public in my Study With Sadler online academy. I also produce the Sadler’s Lectures podcast and co-host the Wisdom for Life radio show

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