The unreal and the real : the selected short stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author.

Book 2016

A collection of some of the best short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin - selected by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. She has had her work collected over the years, but this is the first short story volume combining a full range of her work.

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ISBN:

9781481475969
1481475967

Description:

715 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

"Originally published in two editions in 2012 by Small Beer Press"--T.p. verso

Contents:

Brothers and sisters
A week in the country
Unlocking the air
Imaginary countries
The diary of the rose
Direction of the road
The white donkey
Gwilan's harp
May's lion
Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight?
Horse camp
The water is wide
The lost children
Texts
Sleepwalkers
Hand, cup, shell
Ether, or
Half past four
The ones who walk away from Omelas
Semley's necklace
Nine lives
Mazes
The first contact with the Gorgonids
The Shobie's story
Betrayals
The matter of Seggri
Solitude
The wild girls
The fliers of Gy
The silence of the Asonu
The ascent of the north face
The author of the acacia seeds
The wife's story
The rule of names
Small change
The poacher
Sur
She unnames them
Jar of water

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1866879

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