In "From Master to Brother," Len Hatfield describes how a perceptive reader can read the former trilogy in terms of its new addition. Then, in 1990, Le Guin published Tehanu-a fourth member for the former trilogy, teasingly subtitled "The Last Book of Earthsea." In continuing her story past the now only apparently concluding events of The Farthest Shore, Le Guin clearly signaled that she had new thoughts about her old conclusions, and that she wanted readers to reconsider their understanding of what they had read earlier. For almost two decades after The Farthest Shore appeared in 1972, they were widely known as the Earthsea Trilogy. What seemed complete for so long turns out not to be, and, inevitably, the events of the new story change the meaning of what went before.
The publication of an unexpected sequel to a novel or series of novels, always disconcerting, is especially so when it occurs some years after the appearance of the original.
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