Orsinian Tales
Orsinia ... a land of medieval forests, stonewalled cities, and railways reaching into the mountains where the old gods dwell. A country where life is harsh, dreams are gentle, and people feel torn by powerful forces and fight to remain whole. In this enchanting collection, Ursula K. Le Guin...
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Orsinia ... a land of medieval forests, stonewalled cities, and railways reaching into the mountains where the old gods dwell. A country where life is harsh, dreams are gentle, and people feel torn by powerful forces and fight to remain whole. In this enchanting collection, Ursula K. Le Guin brings to mainstream fiction the same compelling mastery of word and deed, of story and character, of violence and love, that has won her the Pushcart Prize, and the Kafka and National Book Awards.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060763435 (0060763434)
Publish date: December 14th 2004
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
Found for $1.50, of course we grabbed it!
Le Guin is a national treasure whose name I shall constantly type with a Q until I edit it later, and the 'Orsinian Tales' might be her great forgotten classic. Despite the, in my edition, romantic cover art meant to match the covers of her Earthsea novels and other fantasy output, these stories are...
I just reread this and had to change my assessment. Each of the stories, set in the fantasy country of Orsinia, which is planted firmly in the history of our real world, was exceptional, brilliant, tender, personal, and delightful. My main complaint is that I wanted to know more about all the peop...
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