Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062470876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Semley's Necklace" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062471031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future. Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473205840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS 'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD Earth-scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by three native races: the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia, and the warrior clan, Liuar. But when the technologically primitive planet is suddenly invaded by a fleet of ships from the stars, rebels against the League of All Worlds, Rocannon is the only survey member left alive. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this newly discovered world - and finds that legends grow around him as he fights.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473202876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES 'Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and the force of a Twain' BOSTON GLOBE 'Her stories will pass into legend, to touch many generations to come' GUARDIAN THE UNREAL AND THE REAL is a two-volume collection of stories, selected by Ursula Le Guin herself, and spans the spectrum of fiction from realism through magical realism, satire, science fiction, surrealism and fantasy. Volume Two, OUTER SPACE, INNER LANDS, showcases Le Guin's acclaimed stories of the fantastic, originally appearing in publications as varied as AMAZING STORIES, PLAYBOY, the NEW YORKER and OMNI, and contains 20 stories, including modern classics such as the HUGO AWARD-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas', NEBULA-nominee 'Nine Lives'; JAMES TIPTREE, JR MEMORIAL AWARD-winner (and HUGO and NEBULA-nominee) 'The Matter of Seggri'; NEBULA AWARD-winner 'Solitude'; and the secret history 'Sur', which was nominated for the HUGO AWARD and included in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780441732944
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Small Beer Press
ISBN: 1618730363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin's short story collections: "It is the author's more serious work that displays her talents best. . . . [A] classy and valuable collection."—Publishers Weekly "A master of the craft."—Neil Gaiman The Unreal and the Real is a two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best stories. It is a much-anticipated event and there is no doubt it will delight, amuse, and provoke. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's satirical, risky, political, and experimental earthbound stories. Ursula K. Le Guin has received the PEN–Malamud and National Book Awards, among others. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006247099X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati Enquirer The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Winter's King" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
Author: Claire McMillan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501165046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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"This ... novel set in the rarified world of money and society alternates between two generations of the Quincy family: the wealthy robber baron brothers who vied over a bewitching Jazz Age beauty and the young woman who inherits a spectacular and mysterious Indian necklace and its secrets"--
Author: Tom Shippey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192803818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 587
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A collection of classic science fiction short stories features tales by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Brian Aldiss, Ursala K. LeGuin, and many others. Edited by the author of The Road to Middle-Earth. 20,000 first printing.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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An "ethnographic" novel that portrays life in California's Napa Valley as it might be a very long time from now, imagined not as a high tech future but as a time of people once again living close to the land.
