Ursula K Le Guin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After the extraordinary success of the Earthsea novels, Ursula K. Le Guin returned in late career to the young adult fantasy genre with a trilogy of coming-of-age novels set in the far-flung Western Shore. These tales of teenagers struggling to come to terms with their own mysterious and magical gifts showcase the imaginative generosity and abiding human concerns that mark Le Guin's work, and together they form an elegant anthem to the transformative...
2) Gifts
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 1
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--A violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories selected by the author combined here in one volume for the first time. Part I: Where on Earth focuses on Le Guin's interest in realism and magic realism and includes eighteen of Le Guin's satirical, political, and experimental earthbound stories. Highlights include World Fantasy and Hugo Award winner " Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight," the rarely reprinted satirical short "The Lost Children," Jupiter Award winner...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
October 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
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers--live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to form a new settlement further away, the Bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion." Luz understands what it means...
6) The telling
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 8
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Earthling Sutty has been living a solitary, well-protected life in Dovza City on the planet Aka as an official Observer for the interstellar Ekumen. Insisting on all citizens being pure "producer-consumers," the tightly controlled capitalist government of Aka--the Corporation--is systematically destroying all vestiges of the ancient ways: "The Time of Cleansing" is the chilling term used to describe this era. Books are burned, the old language and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's recent talks, essays, introductions is the best manual we have for exploring the worlds explored in recent fiction; the most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
"Words Are My Matter collects talks, essays, introductions to beloved books, and book reviews by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of our fore- most public literary intellectuals. Words Are My Matter is essential reading. It is a manual for investigating...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 281
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The inaugural volume of Library of America's Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the central European country of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. The stories originally published in Orsinian...
11) Voices
Author
Series
Annals of the Western Shore volume 2
Pub. Date
2008, ©2006
Language
English
Description
Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
12) Catwings return
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 2
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building about to be demolished.