The Masters
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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 spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Masters" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.Tags
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Soixante-dix nouvelles et poèmes de Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp, Michaël Moorcock, H.G. Wells, Yves et Ada Remy, Poul Anderson, Dean R. Koontz, Marion Zimmer Bradley,Tanith Lee, Tolkien, etc. rassemblés dans cinq grandes parties : Le Manoir des roses, La Citadelle écarlate, La Cathédrale de sang, La Dame des crânes et Le Monde des chimères. Sommaire complet.
Quatrième de couverture : De ses racines qui plongent au coeur des plus anciennes traditions orales à ess derniers avatars, ce sont tous les courants de la fantasy qui sont représentés ici, en cinq parties et soixante-dix textes. De la tendresse à la violence, du baroque au comique, du rêve au show more cauchemar, dieux, elfes, magiciens, barbares et guerriers, savants et sorciers ou simples humains vous entraînent vers des terres inconnues au travers de paysages intérieurs jusqu'au fond tourmenté de l'inconscient. show less
Quatrième de couverture : De ses racines qui plongent au coeur des plus anciennes traditions orales à ess derniers avatars, ce sont tous les courants de la fantasy qui sont représentés ici, en cinq parties et soixante-dix textes. De la tendresse à la violence, du baroque au comique, du rêve au show more cauchemar, dieux, elfes, magiciens, barbares et guerriers, savants et sorciers ou simples humains vous entraînent vers des terres inconnues au travers de paysages intérieurs jusqu'au fond tourmenté de l'inconscient. show less
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Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California on October 21, 1929. She received a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1951 and a master's degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952. She won a Fulbright fellowship in 1953 to study in Paris, where she met and married show more Charles Le Guin. Her first science-fiction novel, Rocannon's World, was published in 1966. Her other books included the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, The Lathe of Heaven, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and The Telling. A Wizard of Earthsea received an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014. She also received the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. She also wrote books of poetry, short stories collections, collections of essays, children's books, a guide for writers, and volumes of translation including the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and selected poems by Gabriela Mistral. She died on January 22, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Masters
- Original title
- The Masters [short story]
- Original publication date
- 1963-02
- People/Characters*
- Ganil Kalson; Wanno; Lee; Mede Fairman; Lani; Yin
- First words*
- In der Dunkelheit stand ein Mann; nackt, allein, hielt er eine rauchende Fackel in der Hand.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ganil hob den Blick zu dem wolkenschweren Himmel und machte sich dann auf, allein, durch die Straßen der Stadt, zum Stadttor hinaus, nach Norden ins Exil und nach Hause.
- Original language*
- Englisch
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