Orsinian Tales
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553107050 (0553107054)
Publish date: January 1st 1977
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages no: 209
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...