Impressions from my first novel in English Last days I read the book I wanted to read for a long time, "A Wizard of Earthsea" in English. Before this I've read it only in Russian, but it became my favorite since that first reading 15 years ago. When I knew there are several translations, I thought of reading them, but also I wished to get and read its English version first. I wanted to appreciate the beauty of the original. I think it's no use to speak much about the language of the novel, because I'm not a native speaker and not a literary critic by trade, so cannot judge objectively. The only things I want to say is the following. First, there was not any serious difficulty for me to read this book without dictionary at all. I mean I read it continuously without consulting a dictionary once the word was unknown. Some sentences in the first half were inconvenient to my reading-in-English experience, of course, but generally I understood almost everything, more than 95%. Second, I absolutely enjoyed the style of narration, with lots of words and constructions showing the richness of English. I am glad that "A Wizard..." has become my first novel in English. There is no much knowledge one must have to understand its sense. The novel itself gives a reader enough, so all the symbols and allegories are understandable without other special books. And what's even better, I think, almost everyone can see something individual in this, one's own hidden sense, although it may seem "just a good fairy tale" at first sight. Its sense is much deeper. So to say, the question "what is that story about?" can be answered in different ways. The first one that came to my mind is "this story is about people should think over what they do". The second that may be is "this is an allegory about fixing the ecological problems caused by human errors". The third is "the story tells about acceptance of the darker side of one's soul". The fourth is "this is a tale about finding and recognition of one's and the world's integrity in duality". And so on. The senses seem to be multiple, I just mentioned few. Well, I don't know what else to say just to recommend to read this novel for non-native English speakers who reached at least intermediate level. Reading this may improve your skills, expand your vocabulary, and bring you much joy of perceiving the English speech. P.S. Thank you for reading. Any comments and corrections are welcome.