![]() In particular, she was famously something of a latecomer to feminism. ![]() Le Guin had changed and grown in the time since she began writing Earthsea. Tehanu was published in 1990, almost twenty years after the publication of The Farthest Shore. And Tehanu will indeed take place entirely on Ged's home island, Gont, and will feature all three of the characters from the first three books. You could make an argument that the entirety of The Farthest Shore is just an explication of that third line.) It's like an announcement by Le Guin that she intends to bring the series full-circle, back to where it began. ![]() (And perhaps we understand it a little better, now. The fourth book of Earthsea, Tehanu, which is subtitled The Last Book of Earthsea, opens with the same fictional quotation as did the first book. Previously: The Farthest Shore Chapter Thirteen, "The Stone of Pain." Tehanu Please note that in keeping with the spirit of the reread, these posts sometimes contain spoilers past the current chapter, as well as for other books in the series. We are just starting the fourth book, Tehanu, with the first chapter "A Bad Thing." If you're wondering what this is all about, check out the introduction post, which also contains links to every post in the series so far. Hello everyone, and welcome once again to the Earthsea Reread. ![]()
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