Orsinia
Malafrena, Orsinian Tales
$41.24
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2017
Summary
Among the less-traveled mountains and plains of Central Europe, a little east of Austria perhaps and north of Slovenia, lies the old kingdom of Orsinia. A land of forests and quiet farmlands and towns, with its capital city Krasnoy on the broad Molsen River, Orsinia has always found itself, like all the countries of Europe, subject to forces beyond its borders. Yet, cast as they are in the shadow of tyrannies both Western and Eastern, the lives and dreams of its free people are no less import…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473212060 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473212065 |
| Author: | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 131mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Fantasy Masterworks |
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Critics Review
Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and the force of a Twain - Boston Globe
ORSINIAN TALES … represents the delicate, well-polished woodcarving of a woman who has created whole forests with words … lovely and sophisticated - Philadelphia EnquirerEleven hauntingly written short stories … The view is lively, haunting, infinite - Publishers WeeklyUrsula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
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