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- A wizard of earthsea. Illus. by Ruth Robbins (1968)
- The Left Hand of Darkness (1986)
- Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way (2019)
- No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (2019)
- Lavinia (2009)
- The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (2017)
- The Word for World is Forest (2010)
- The Eye of the Heron: A Novel (2018)
- The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel (2008)
- Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story (2015)
A wizard of earthsea. Illus. by Ruth Robbins (1968)
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The Left Hand of Darkness (1986)
About the Author Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. Her novels include Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, and The Left Hand of Darkness. With the awarding of the 1975 Hugo and Nebula Awards to The Dispossessed, she became the first author to win both awards twice for novels. Le Guin lives in Portland, Oregon.
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way (2019)
In this landmark modern-day rendition of the ancient Taoist classic, Ursula K. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu’s time-honored and astonishingly powerful philosophy like never before. Drawing on a lifetime of contemplation and including extensive personal commentary throughout, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world.
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (2019)
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.
Lavinia (2009)
In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voiceIn The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come.
The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (2017)
Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works as represented in the wonderful The Found and the Lost.
The Word for World is Forest (2010)
The award-winning masterpiece by one of today’s most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin!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.
The Eye of the Heron: A Novel (2018)
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 to have no choices.
The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel (2008)
In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr.
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story (2015)
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.
Best Le Guin Books Worth Your Attention
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Waco : David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
Author(s): Jeff Guinn
ID: 3627779, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Year: 2023, Size: 12 Mb, Format: epub
Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor
Author(s): Kate Sheckler
ID: 3265612, Publisher: Lexington Books, Year: 2022, Size: 1007 Kb, Format: pdf
Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Society
Author(s): Stephen Howes, Lekshmi N. Pillai
ID: 3425279, Publisher: ANU Press, Year: 2022, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
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