Dancing Around the Four Sides

I love A Wizard of Earthsea. It was one of the first books where I really grasped the lyrical nature of the writing in English, and the theme is very much the sort of thing I enjoy. It is remarkable how some authors can build a world, and tell just one tale from it, but the world itself shows vast and clear in the background. Tolkien is this way too, but to me LeGuin writes even more beautifully, and I suppose it says something either about me or about the book that I was able to enjoy it so much even though I was technically too old for the story when I first read it.