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The Wind's Twelve Quarters (edition 1978)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Series: The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Complete)

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The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future. Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.… (more)
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Title:The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Authors:Ursula K. Le Guin
Info:Granada Publishers (1978), Mass Market Paperback, 160 pages
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The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

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A great review of Le Guin's early work, and often full of the brilliant and sublime ideas she is so good at exploring, not to mention an incisive and sharp prose style, both poetic and subdued at the same time.

In particular, the story 'Those Who Walk Away of Omelas' is in this anthology, which might make it historic. A short parable, and possibly more famous in it's synopsis than the story itself, but it still packs an incredible punch. ( )
  JasonMehmel | Feb 9, 2024 |
I'm a Le Guin diehard, and was powerfully moved by this collection. I'd recommend reading her books first, though. ( )
  mmparker | Oct 24, 2023 |
Good. The stories I enjoyed best were "April in Paris," "Nine Lives," and "Vaster than Empires and More Slow." ( )
  k6gst | Aug 2, 2023 |
Even her early stories are better than much of the field, so this Ursula K. Le Guin anthology is a joy, even if an uneven one. A couple of the stories here are weaker than others ("A Trip to the Head" reads more like a private writer's exercise), but there are some real winners. "April in Paris" is a lot of fun, "Nine Lives" is disturbing and profound, and "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" is brilliant; what these share is a focus on the psychological, on the inner course of human thought and existence. Really, the human inner life is what these stories are about.

And the final story, "The Day Before the Revolution," is very satisfying to me as it's a prefatory tale to her novel "The Dispossessed," my favorite of her novels, and because it peeks into the mind and life of the instigator of the revolution that produced the society of TD. Good stuff. ( )
  MLShaw | Apr 14, 2023 |
It is always hard to rate a collection of stories as a whole. Most of the stories were good, a few I really liked, and a few others I just skipped ahead to the next story after a couple pages. So it was a bit of a mixed bag for me. Usually when she stuck to science fiction settings or ideas I enjoyed them the most. The more contemporary stories often felt rambling or uninteresting. I did like the author's introductions to each story. They usually gave interesting context to the stories. ( )
  cypher2048 | Dec 28, 2020 |
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bergen, DavidCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bosch i Pascual, AlfredTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rambelli, RobertaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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From far, from eve and morning
And you twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither; here am I.

Now--for a breath I tarry
Nor yet disperse apart--
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.

Speak now, and I will answer;
How shall I help you, say;
Ere to the wind's twelve quarters
I take my endless way.


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FOREWORD

This collection is what painters call a retrospective; it gives a roughly chronological survey of my short stories during the first ten years after I broke into print, belated but undaunted, at the age of thirty-two.
How can you tell the legend from the fact on those worlds that lie so many years away?
How can you tell the legend from the fact on those worlds that lie so many years away?—planets without names, called by their people simply The World, planets without history, where the past is the matter of myth, and a returning explorer finds his own doings of a few years back have become the gestures of a god.
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"He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God."
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While the eBook edition published by HarperCollins in 2017 (ISBN 9780062471031 0062471031) is subtitled "A Story", it is indeed the complete co9llection. / 0586046224 is Volume 1 in the Panther Science Fiction series, and shouldn't be included in this work.
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The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future. Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.

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Contains:

# Semley's Necklace

# April in Paris

# The Masters

# Darkness Box

# The Word of Unbinding

# The Rule of Names

# Winter's King

# The Good Trip

# Nine Lives

# Things

# A Trip to the Head

# Vaster Than Empires and More Slow

# The Stars Below

# The Field of Vision

# Direction of the Road

# The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas

# The Day Before the Revolution
Contains:

# Semley's Necklace

# April in Paris

# The Masters

# Darkness Box

# The Word of Unbinding

# The Rule of Names

# Winter's King

# The Good Trip

# Nine Lives
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