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Space Crone (Paperback)
Ursula K. Le Guin
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'Le Guin's words are magical. Drink this magic up. Drown in it.
Dream it' David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS In this stunning
collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le
Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of
America's most honored and respected authors. At the far end of our
universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is
divided into 'assets' and 'owners', tradition and liberation are at
war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and
troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters
struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary
Abberkam, the callow 'space brat' Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo,
and the Ekumen historian and Hainish exile Havzhiva, freedom and
duty both begin in the heart, and success as well as failure has
its costs.
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Changing Planes - Stories (Paperback)
Ursula K. Le Guin; Illustrated by Eric Beddows; Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler
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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.
Contains the short story, 'The Daughter of Odren', published in
print for the first time, and her last story 'Firelight'. Ursula K.
Le Guin's Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and
awarded works in literature-they have received prestigious
accolades such as the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the
Nebula Award, and many more honors, commemorating their enduring
place in the hearts and minds of readers and the literary world
alike. Now for the first time ever, they're all together in one
volume-including the early short stories, Le Guin's "Earthsea
Revisioned" Oxford lecture, and new Earthsea stories, never before
printed. With a new introduction by Le Guin herself, this essential
edition will also include over fifty illustrations by renowned
artist Charles Vess, specially commissioned and selected by Le
Guin, to bring her refined vision of Earthsea and its people to
life in a totally new way. Stories include: 'A Wizard of Earthsea',
'The Tombs of Atuan', 'The Farthest Shore', 'Tehanu', 'Tales From
Earthsea', 'The Other Wind', 'The Rule of Names', 'The Word of
Unbinding', 'The Daughter of Odren', and 'Earthsea Revisioned: A
Lecture at Oxford University' With stories as perennial and
universally beloved as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of The
Rings-but also unlike anything but themselves-this edition is
perfect for those new to the world of Earthsea, as well as those
who are well-acquainted with its enchanting magic: to know Earthsea
is to love it. - 1,008 pages - 56 illustrations (including seven
lavishly coloured plate sections) - maps of Earthsea - stunningly
beautiful endpapers - Six novels - 4 short stories - An essay
One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new
introduction by Roddy Doyle 'A well told tale signifying a good
deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES 'The book I wish I
had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love
to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write
like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy Doyle 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal
power' OBSERVER 'There was a wall. It did not look important - even
a child could climb it. But the idea was real. Like all walls it
was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside
it depended upon which side of it you were on...' Shevek is
brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time
- but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do
anything to block him. So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a
place of more liberty and tolerance. Initially feted, Shevek soon
finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game. With
powerful themes of freedom, society and the natural world's
influence on competition and co-operation, THE DISPOSSESSED is a
true classic of the 20th century.
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We (Paperback, Main - Canons)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Bela Shayevich; Introduction by Margaret Atwood; Contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell
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The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened
Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where
surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic
rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the
ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to
new ideas of love, sex and freedom. A foundational work of
dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, WE is a book of radical
imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power,
machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire.
In this brilliant new translation, it is both a warning and a hope
for a better world.
'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER The winner of
the National Book Award, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a profound
and transformational literature. The award-winning stories in A
Fisherman of the Inland Sea range from the everyday to the outer
limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and
time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart.
Astonishing in their diversity and power, they exhibit both the
artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the
humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of
wonder still intact.
The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by
Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of
Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as
wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman) This
collection contains the novella "The Finder," and the short stories
"The Bones of the Earth," "Darkrose and Diamond," "On the High
Marsh," and "Dragonfly." Concluding with an account of Earthsea's
history, people, languages, literature, and magic, this edition
also features two new maps of Earthsea. With stories as perennial
and universally beloved as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of
The Rings--but also unlike anything but themselves--Ursula K. Le
Guin's Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded
works in literature. They have received accolades such as the
National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the Nebula Award, and many
more honors, commemorating their enduring place in the hearts and
minds of readers and the literary world alike. Join the millions of
fantasy readers who have explored these lands. As The Guardian put
it: "Ursula Le Guin's world of Earthsea is a tangled skein of tiny
islands cast on a vast sea. The islands' names pull at my heart
like no others: Roke, Perilane, Osskil . . ." The Earthsea Cycle
includes: A Wizard of Earthsea The Tombs of Atuan The Farthest
Shore Tehanu Tales from Earthsea The Other Wind
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time:
'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love
doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like
bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently
strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous
journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his
beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of
persecution. What they have in common is curiosity, about others
and themselves, and an almost unshakeable belief that the world can
be a better place. As they journey for over 800 miles, across the
harshest, most inhospitable landscape, they discover the true
meaning of friendship, and of love.
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 a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity.
"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes
its mind," writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at
the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that
change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction
collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind -- strong,
supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its
concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought
to rodeos, with an eloquence, wit, and precision that makes for
exhilarating reading.
A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer
be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a
people called the Kesh. But Always Coming Home is not the story of
the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems,
songs, recipes - Always Coming Home is no less than an
anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist, a
tour de force of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature's
great voices.
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Always Coming Home (Paperback)
Ursula K. Le Guin; Introduction by Shruti Swamy
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Genly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet
Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are
androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male ot female at
the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien,
unsophisticated and confusing. But he is drawn into the complex
politics of the planet and, during a long, tortuous journey across
the ice with a politician who has fallen from favour and has been
outcast, he loses his professional detachment and reaches a painful
understanding of the true nature of Gethenians and, in a moving and
memorable sequence, even finds love...
The fifth book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition.
Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of
Atuan, The Furthest Shore and Tehanu. With illustrations from
Charles Vess '[This series] made me look at the world in a new way,
imbued everything with a magic that was so much deeper than the
magic I'd encountered before then. This was a magic of words, a
magic of true speaking' Neil Gaiman 'Drink this magic up. Drown in
it. Dream it' David Mitchell These five superlative, evocative and
enchanting stories range from a few hundred years before A Wizard
of Earthsea to just before The Other Wind, and feature some of Le
Guin's most popular characters, including the Wizard Ged himself.
The stories are rounded off with an essay about Earthsea's history
and people. No Earthsea fan will want to be without this magical
collection. '[Earthsea is] a memorable exploration of the
relationship between life and death. . . Ged, its hero, must face
his shadow self before it devours him. Only then will he become
whole. In the process, he must contend with the wisdom of dragons:
ambiguous and not our wisdom, but wisdom nonetheless' Magaret
Atwood
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm
ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time
trying to get out of the bathtub." On cultural perceptions of
fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is
'escapism' an accusation of?" On breakfast: "Eating an egg from the
shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage,
possibly willingness to commit crime." Ursula K. Le Guin took
readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In the last great frontier
of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog,
a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula's blog, No
Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what
mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her
wonder at it: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies
around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us." "The pages
sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an
available ear with which to share them." -- Melissa Febos, New York
Times Book Review "Witty . . . deeply observed." -- USA Today "A
book that truly does matter." -- Houston Chronicle
The sixth book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition.
Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of
Atuan, The Furthest Shore, Tehanu and Tales from Earthsea. With
illustrations from Charles Vess 'Le Guin's words are magical. Drink
this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it' David Mitchell These five
superlative, evocative and enchanting stories range from a few
hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea to just before The Other
Wind, and feature some of Le Guin's most popular characters,
including the Wizard Ged himself. The stories are rounded off with
an essay about Earthsea's history and people. No Earthsea fan will
want to be without this magical collection. '[Earthsea is] a
memorable exploration of the relationship between life and death'
Magaret Atwood
The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored
writers! "The Word for World is Forest"
When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the
bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced
into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their
brutal masters.
Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate
against their captors, abandoning their strictures against
violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the
very foundations of their society. For every blow against the
invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the
killing starts, there is no turning back.
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