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Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father's closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia's mother favours her own kinsman, King Turnus of Rutulia, handsome, heroic, everything a young girl should want. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods' holy place and tells her of her future and Aeneas' past....

In this landmark modern-day rendition of the ancient Taoist classic, Ursula K. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu’s time-honored and astonishingly powerful philosophy like never before. Drawing on a lifetime of contemplation, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world.

When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.

From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.

There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written in the old scripts has been destroyed; modern aural literature is all written to Corporation specifications.

The final part in the story that started with Gifts, and the tale of Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant, two children with extraordinary powers. They play a part in Voices too, the sequel to Gifts, in which Memer, a girl who has grown up in a captured city, is part of the people's fight for freedom. And now, in Powers, we have the conclusion to Ursula Le Guin's beautifully written, powerful and moving story of the Western Isles, a tale that will leave every listener begging for more.

Memer is a child of rape; when the Alds took the beautiful city of Ansul, they descecrated or destroyed everything of beauty. The Waylord they imprisoned and tortured for years until finally he is freed to return to his home. Though crippled, he is not destroyed. His life still has purpose. Memer is the daughter of his House, the daughter of his heart. The Alds, a people who love war, cannot and will not read: they believe that in words lie demons that will destroy the world.

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of stories. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance-art pieces, and most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.

A walk around the block, a quick drive, before shutting down your PC ? these short story collections are perfect for when you only have a few minutes to listen."

Ici, il y a des dragons. Il y a des enchanteurs, une mer immense et des îles. Ged, simple gardien de chèvres sur l'île de Gont, a le don. Il va devenir au terme d'une longue initiation, en traversant nombre d'épreuves redoutables, le plus grand sorcier de Terremer, l'Archimage. Couverture illustrée par Edward Bettison.

From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts - always adroit, often acerbic - on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken listeners to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice - sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical - shines. No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula's blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters.

These stories are set in the familiar quasi-medieval worlds to which modern listeners are accustomed, and also stories rooted in the authentic myth-constructs of high antiquity, along with several that depend for their power on the juxtaposition of fantastic situations and terribly contemporary aspects of modern life on Earth. Together these stories make up a collection which provides reassuring proof of fantasy's eternal power in this technological age.

Orrec, the son of the Brantor of Caspromant, and Gry, daughter of the Brantors of Barre and Rodd, have grown up together, running half-wild across the Uplands. The people there are like their land: harsh and fierce and prideful; ever at war with each other. Only the gifts keep the fragile peace. The Barre gift is calling animals.

In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups - the farmers of Shantih and the city dwellers - live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the city, the city bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to form a new settlement further away, the bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion".

Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula Award-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution', and the Hugo-nominated 'Winter's King', which gave listeners their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.

Im sechsten Teil nimmt uns Bestsellerautorin Ursula K. Le Guin noch einmal mit nach Erdsee... - inklusive umfassendem Bonusmaterial. Der junge Dorfzauberer Erle wird von Albträumen geplagt, in denen ihn die Toten im Dunklen Land jenseits der Mauer anrufen und auffordern, sie in die Welt zurückzuholen. Auf der Suche nach Deutung dieser Träume und der Erlösung von ihnen führt Erles Weg über die Zauberschule von Rok, den ehemaligen Erzmagier Ged und an den Hof König Lebannens, wo er auch auf Tenar und Tehanu trifft.

Ged, il più grande stregone di tutta Terramare, nella sua gioventù spericolata veniva chiamato lo Sparviero. Affamato di potere e conoscenza, ha rivelato segreti a lungo custoditi liberando una terribile minaccia sul mondo. Questa è la storia della sua prova, di come ha cercato di apprendere le arti magiche, di come ha domato un antico drago e attraversato la soglia della morte per ristabilire l'equilibrio dell'intero universo.

Tenar führt ein erfülltes Leben als Frau eines einfachen Bauern. Nachdem ihr Mann tot und ihre zwei Kinder erwachsen geworden sind, nimmt sie Therru bei sich auf, ein Mädchen, das missbraucht und von ihren Peinigern schrecklich entstellt wurde. Als sich Tenars Wege mit denen des ehemaligen Erzmagiers Ged kreuzen, wird offenbar, dass in Therru eine unvorstellbare Macht schlummert, die nur darauf wartet, zu erwachen. Doch die Zeit drängt - denn ein dunkler Magier trachtet Tenar und Ged nach dem Leben.

Primera entrega del emblemático ciclo de Terramar. En el mundo de Terramar la magia es un elemento indispensable. Un principio fundamental rige ese mundo: el equilibrio entre la vida y la muerte, que pocos pueden alterar. Pasados diez años, Ged capaz ya de actuar en beneficio de otros, decide recobrar la mitad de un anillo perdido en las tumbas de Atuan; sin embargo la sacerdotisa le involucrará en las profundidades de Terramar. ¡Déjate llevar por la magia de Terramar!

Der dritte Teil des zeitlosen Fantasy-Klassikers von Ursula K. Le Guin als ungekürztes Hörbuch. Eine große Gefahr bedroht das Leben in Erdsee: Zauber zeigen keine Wirkung mehr, die natürliche Balance zwischen Licht und Dunkelheit, Leben und Tod scheint gestört. Besorgt begibt sich Ged, mittlerweile Erzmagier von Rok, mit dem Prinzensohn Arren auf die Reise, um das dunkle Geheimnis zu lüften, das über Erdsee schwebt. Doch im Reich des Todes lauern viele Gefahren, und bald kämpfen sie ums Überleben. Gelingt es den beiden, die bevorstehende Vernichtung zu verhindern?