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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin's essential guide to the writer's craft, now publishing in the UK for the first time. A guide for writing groups as well as solo writers, with…
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This volume of the WisCon Chronicles celebrates, challenges, and discusses the varied faces of WisCon 33. Its contributors include a mix of writers, scholars, and fans, among whom number Nisi…
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Ursula K Le Guin
With a new afterword from the author –Jkt.
Poetry by U.S. fantasy author Ursula Le Guin.
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s final book was named one of the Five Best Poetry Collections of 2018, by The Washington Post.
Redolent of myths, history, nursery rhymes, and the natural world, LeGuin bookends a long, daring, and prolific career.
Talk & essays on how & why fantasy matters –Cover.
In this powerful companion to the celebrated Gifts, conquerors of a coastalcity consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. 5 x7.
When Sparrowhawk, the Archmage of Earthsea, returns from the dark land stripped of his magic powers, he finds refuge with the aging widow Tenar and a crippled girl child who…
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In the final novel of the Earthsea fantasy series, a widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend Sparrowhawk, a magician who has lost his powers.
Newly revised edition of the 2003 Nebula Award winner.
With The Birthday of the World, Le Guin once again demonstrates her virtuosity with a superb collection of eight science fiction tales.
A thrilling fantasy from the bestselling author of the EARTHSEA series ‘She’s showing no signs of losing her brilliance. She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and…
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Sequel to Le Guin’s brilliant GIFTS, the second in her Annals of the Western Shore
The final part of Le Guin’s mesmerising Annals of the Western Isles ‘Le Guin’s storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be’ EMPIRE
The celebrated author offers her thoughts on a broad range of subjects, including literary criticism, the state of science fiction writing today, and government and governmental policies.
The breadth and depth of Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistrals poetry is passionately translated to English by Le Guin in this landmark bilingual edition.
An exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize, and six Nebula…
The National Book Award-winning third novel in the renowned Earthsea series from Le Guin gets a beautiful new repackage. Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are…
All of the stories set in award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin’s fictional European nation of Orsinia, gathered together for the first time.
An exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Le Guin, first published in 1968 and winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize…
An exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Le Guin, winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize, and six Nebula Awards. Reissue.
Written by award-winning fantasy writer LeGuin, this book is the second in the Earthsea Cycle trilogy. A mature Sparrowhawk goes on a sailing journey to find the caue of evil…
Arha’s isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure.
The award-winning masterpiece by one of today’s most honored writers. An early classic of ecological awareness in SF, and one of the works on which Le Guin’s early reputation as…
Setting the standard for high fantasy, this first installment of the EarthseaCycle trilogy is written by award-winning author LeGuin, winner of the Nebulaand Hugo Awards.
The author presents a collection of nonfiction writings, including essays on such topics as Tolstoy, Tolkien, women’s shoes, Mark Twain, family life, and beauty, as well as autobiographical writings and…
Vibrantly repackaged in a stunning new format, this classic science fiction novel offers "a rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion" ("The New York Times"). In…
Ursula K Le Guin (New Directions)
Originally published in two editions in 2012 by Small Beers Press.
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
With deliberately vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator describes a mid-summer festival in the utopian town of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on one boy’s perpetual misery. Those Who Leave Omelas…
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels
"One of the greats. . . . Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." --Stephen King
"Engrossing. . . . [Le…
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A major study of the major and minor fiction, poetry, and children’s books of SF and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin. As Le Guin herself writes, It is written…
Description of the seductions - and snares - of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society. This title, an edited collection of original essays on Le Guin’s The Dispossessed…
Ursula K. Le Guin (New Directions)
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts–always adroit, often acerbic–on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation
From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Beginning Place.
Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to the…
A gorgeous new trade paperback reissue of a beloved tale from literary titan Ursula K. Le Guin.
Written in an accessible style, Legacies will appeal to any readers interested in literature, science fiction and fantasy, as well as specialists of science and technology studies, philosophy of science…
Wiebke Saathoff
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover, language: English, abstract: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed…
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