A Trip to the Head: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story)

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. "A Trip to the Head" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

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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*
Reise in die Erinnerung [Kurzgeschichte]
Original title
A Trip to the Head [short story]
Original publication date
1970-11
First words*
»Ist dies die Erde?« fragte er, denn die Dinge hatten sich unversehens verändert.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Tiefer und tiefer ging er hinein, in die Schatten, unter dem Laubdach, nach Osten, hinein in den Wald, wo namenlose Tiger brannten.
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Englisch
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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction, General Fiction
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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