Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songs (The Library of America)

The inaugural volume of Library of Americaâ€™s Ursula K. Le GuinÂ edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting,Â richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time.Â Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novelÂ Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the central europeanÂ country of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century, when it isÂ ruled by the Austrian empire. The stories originally publishedÂ in Orsinian Tales (1976) offer brilliantly rendered episodesÂ of personal drama set against a history that spans Orsiniaâ€™sÂ emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth centuryÂ to its absorption by the eastern Bloc after World War II. The volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bringÂ the history of Orsinia up to 1989, the poem â€œFolksong fromÂ the Montayna Province,â€ Le Guinâ€™s first published work,Â and two never before published songs in the Orisinian language.

From the Hardcover edition.

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songs (The Library of America)