In A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin creates a groundbreaking fantasy, in which Ged battles evil in a world where magic is as habitual as breathing. Duny, an arrogant Gontish boy uses magic taught to him by a village witch to defend his village against Kargish pillage, greatly injuring himself. A powerful wizard from Re Albi named Ogion heals the boy and presents Duny with his true name, Ged thereafter taking him as prentice where Ged first encounters powerful dark magic. Eventually Ged leaves Re Albi for the school of magic in Roke, where in a fit of jealousy and childish anger Ged summons the dead and consequently unleashes a deadly evil. After the harrowing experience, Ged slowly heals under the close eye of the Nine Masters of Roke
