The Compass Rose - Softcover

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061056073 ISBN 13: 9780061056079

Publisher: HarperCollins,Australia, 1995

Synopsis

North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness...South to discover Antarctica with three ladies from Chile...West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death...and onward to all points on and off the compass. Twenty astonishing stories from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin that carry us to worlds of wonder and horror, desire and destiny, enchantment and doom.

About this title

About the Author:

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, and lives in Portland, Oregon. As of 2014, she has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry, and four of translation, and has received many honors and awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, and PEN/Malamud. Her most recent publications are Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems and The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories.

Synopsis:

This new collection of short stories ranges widely in subject, mood, geography, and time and combines the tender, the humorous, the grim, and solemn, the adventurous, and the fantastic.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins,Australia
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0061056073
• ISBN 13: 9780061056079
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback