A Wizard of Earthsea

Short first entry in the Earthsea series. Haven't read any others. Reads like a YA novel, though LeGuin talks about a lack of specific audience in the Afterword; it reads a lot like mythology, a very different feeling from most other fantasy. The story is pretty standard, and it helps to remember that a lot of what seems derivative is itself derived from LeGuin and other then-contemporary works.