Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories: A Library

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set (Library of America, 296-297)

For the first time, a deluxe collector's edition of the pathbreaking novels and stories that reinvented science fiction, with new introductions by the author.

Winner of the 2018 Locus Award for Best SF Collection.

In such visionary masterworks as theÂ Nebula and Hugo Award winners The Left Hand ofÂ Darkness and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin redrew the map of modern science fiction, imagining a galacticÂ confederation of human colonies founded by theÂ planet Hain, an array of worlds whose divergentÂ societiesâ‚¬"the result of both evolution and geneticÂ engineeringâ‚¬"allow her to speculate on what isÂ intrinsic in human nature. Now, for the first time, theÂ complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in aÂ deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set,Â with new introductions by the author.

Volume oneÂ gathers the first five Hainish novels:Â Rocannonâ‚¬s World, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-ageÂ planet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy;Â Planet of Exile, theÂ story of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them;Â City of Illusions, which finds a future Earth ruled by theÂ mysterious Shing; and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winningÂ masterpiecesÂ The Left Hand of DarknessÂ andÂ The Dispossessedâ‚¬"asÂ well as four short stories.

Volume two presents Le Guinâ‚¬s final twoÂ Hainish novels,Â The Word for World Is Forest, in which EarthÂ enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, andÂ TheÂ Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed itsÂ own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven shortÂ stories and the story suiteÂ Five Ways to Forgiveness, published hereÂ in full for the first time.

The endpapers feature Le Guin's own hand-drawn map of Gethen, the planet that is the setting for The Left Hand of Darkness, and a full-color chart of the known worlds of Hainish descent.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ‚¬s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ‚¬s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 26523007
ReleaseDate 2017-09-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598535372

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	26523007
ReleaseDate	2017-09-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598535372

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set (Library of America, 296-297)

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