The complete Orsinia
Malafrena ; Stories and songs
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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"The inaugural volume of Library of America{u2019}s Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the central european country of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. The stories originally published in Orsinian Tales (1976) offer brilliantly rendered episodes of personal drama set against a history that spans Orsinia{u2019}s emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth century to its absorption by the eastern Bloc after World War II. The volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bring the history of Orsinia up to 1989, the poem 'Folksong from the Montayna Province,' Le Guin{u2019}s first published work, and two never before published songs in the Orisinian language."--Page 4 of cover.
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The complete Orsinia: Malafrena ; Stories and songs
2016, The Library of America
in English
1598534939 9781598534931
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-576).
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