The Tombs of Atuan is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the Winter 1970 issue of Worlds of Fantasy and published as a book by Atheneum in 1971. It was Le Guin's second novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea and the middle book in the so-called Earthsea Trilogy (1968 to 1972). Its events take place a few years after A Wizard of Earthsea and around two decades before The Farthest Shore.
The Tombs of Atuan was a Newbery Honor Book in 1972.
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““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
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