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Violence
Some
Some fantasy violence; the Dark of the Tombs and the Dry Land involve genuine peril
Language
None
Clean language
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of power, death, and the long shadow of heroism across a lifetime
What this book is about
This collection gathers the first four Earthsea novels: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu. Le Guin's archipelago world is among speculative fiction's most fully realized, and across four volumes her concerns shift from heroic adventure to profound questions of gender, death, power, and what it means to grow old. An essential fantasy collection.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Fantasy violence
Death and the afterlife themes
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