Other editions of book The Tombs of Atuan

This is one in a trio of novels, a classic of high fantasy, that has been compared with Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" Series. This volume: "The Tombs of Atuan, is the sequel to "A Wizard of Earthsea" and is followed by "The Farthest Shore". At the last turn of the corridor she halted; then very slowly took the last step, and looked, and saw. - - Saw what she had never seen, not though she had lived a hundred lives: the great vaulted cavern beneath the Tombstones, not hollowed by man's hand but by the powers of the Earth. It was jeweled with crystals and ornamented with pinnacles and filigrees of white limestone where the waters under earth had worked, eons since: immense, with glittering roof and walls, sparkling, delicate, intricate, a palace of diamonds, a house of amethyst and crystal, from which the ancient darkness had been driven out by glory . . .