Elaine Kleiner wrote:
>
> Ursula LeGuin's fantasy trilogy for children is wonderful (ends with
> "The Farthest Shore" I believe.)
The first two books of this are _A Wizard of Earthsea_ (it's commonly
called the Earthsea trilogy) and _The Tombs of Atuan_. Some years after
the third book (_The Farthest Shore_), Le Guin came out with a fourth
book, _Tehanu_, which is really not for children. _Tehanu_ is much
darker than the first three and carries the hero and heroine of the
first three books (Ged and Tenar) into middle age. Ged has lost his
powers (this happened at the end of the third book) and Tenar is
widowed, having married an ordinary man and rejected any power she might
have had. The two of them try to live ordinary lives along with an
abused child whom Tenar has rescued.
Berni Phillips
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