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Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 2 (LOA #297): The Word for World Is Forest / Five Ways to Forgiveness / The T,New
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Product DescriptionThe starspanning story of humanitys colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guins visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of modern science fiction, making it a rich field for literary explorations of the nature of human nature, as Margaret Atwood has described Le Guins subject. Now, for the first time, the complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in a definitive twovolume Library of America edition, with new introductions by the author. This second volume in a definitive twovolume edition gathers Le Guins final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness, published here in full for the first time. The endpapers feature a fullcolor chart of the known worlds of Hainish descent.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas 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 acidfree paper that will last for centuries.ReviewGenre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself. Zadie SmithUrsula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory.Jonathan LethemBelongs in the library of everyone who enjoys the best that science fiction has to offer. Locus MagazineAbout the AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin is one of the most celebrated writers of her generation, recipient of multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.Brian Attebery, editor, is professor of English at Idaho State University and the editor of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He edited The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1997) with Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler and is the author of Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2014) and Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (2002), among other books.
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