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Orsinian Tales is a collection of eleven short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, most of them set in the imaginary East European country of Orsinia.
Here is a dimension of Le Guin’s extraordinary literary imagination that will surprise and delight readers. Complete with a newly researched chronology of the author’s life and career.
Dec 14, 2004 · The stories are of a fictional Italianate kingdom Orsinia (Venice? Florence? Naples?) and go by dates throughout the centuries. The struggles of the times are sketched in tiny tales. These tales a carved like exquisite Japanese netsuke, each a polished gem and a minuscule world in itself.
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Sep 1, 1976 · The 11 stories that make up the Orsinian Tales are each set in a different historical period from 1150 (“The Barrow”), by way of 1640 (“The Lady of Moge”), to 1965 (“The House”). However LeGuin’s interest in politics and recent history, and her romantic vision, lead her to focus on the 20th century.
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These brilliantly rendered stories recount episodes of personal drama set against a history that spans Orsinia’s emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth century to its absorption by the eastern Bloc after World War II.
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Here is a dimension of Le Guin’s extraordinary literary imagination that will surprise and delight readers. Complete with a newly researched chronology of the author’s life and career. Orsinian Talesis also in the Library of America collection Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia. Table of Contents.
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A collection of Le Guin's historical fiction writings set in an imaginary central European nation—complete with a newly researched chronology of her life and career. In a career spanning half a...
