Ursula K. Le Guin
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 4
Publisher
Orchard Books
Language
English
Description
When Jane, a cat with wings, leaves the safety of her farm to explore the world, she falls into the hands of a man who keeps her prisoner and exploits her for money.
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Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Eight tales, several on churten technology which allows people to travel instantaneously. In the title story a scientist is sent back in time, his opportunity to accept the love he once rejected, while The Kerastion is on a musical instrument which cannot be heard. By the author of Searoad.
Author
Series
Earthsea series volume 1
Language
English
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A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
"Originally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved Earthsea titles. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon...
5) Cat dreams
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Presents a feline dreamland where it rains mice, all the dogs have run away, and a big bowl of kibbles and cream is waiting.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Completely revised and rewritten to address the challenges and opportunities of the modern era, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin's own witty commentary and an exercise that...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
In these stories, connected loosely but powerfully by their rugged Pacific Northwest setting, LeGuin portrays residents of a small Oregon shore town with sympathy and no sentiment. Many of the tales center around women drawn together in threes - mother, daughter, grandmother - by illness or death.
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Language
English
Description
The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including...
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Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea --"...reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago," (David Mitchell)--comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating Le Guin's vision of her classic saga. Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature--they have received prestigious...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 296-297
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For the first time, all of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish novels and stories are brought together in a 2-volume set, complete and with new introductions by the author. Beginning in the 1960s and 70s, these remarkable works redrew the map of modern science fiction. In such visionary masterworks as the Nebula and Hugo Award winners The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, Le Guin imagined a galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the...
13) The telling
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 8
Language
English
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Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
[This book] represents the first time that all of Le Guin novellas have been collected in a single volume. Featuring thirteen unforgettable stories, this literary treasure is easily one of the most anticipated collections of the year. In addition to more than 800 pages of extraordinary storytelling, [this book] also includes an introduction from the legendary author.
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 7
Language
English
Description
A revolt of slaves in space ends in disillusion for the women. The men have become free, but the women are oppressed as ever. So, on one of the planets women launch their own war of liberation.
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Series
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English
Description
"A master builder of faraway, fantastic worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin, at mid-career, found in her native California the inspiration for what was to be her greatest literary construction: nothing less than an entire ethnography of a future society, the Kesh, living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. This Library of America edition of her 1985 classic Always Coming Home, prepared in close consultation with the author, features new material added by Le...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy novels, though she began her career as a poet. "I still kind of twitch and growl when I'm reduced to being the science fiction writer. I'm a novelist and increasingly a poet. And sometimes I wish they'd call me that," Le Guin said in a 2015 interview with NPR. In this clarifying and sublime collection--written shortly before her death...
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 1
Language
English
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Shevek, a briliant physicist, attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.
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Series
Language
English
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Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts...