The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity. </p>

Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth.

Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.

Ursula Le Guin's beloved YA series gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition for every reader
This fifth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's work presents a trilogy of coming-of-age stories set in the Western Shore, a world where young people find themselves struggling not just against racism, prejudice, and slavery, but with how to live with the mysterious and magical gifts they have been given. All three novels feature the generous voice and deeply human concerns that mark all Le Guin's work, and together they form an elegant anthem to the revolutionary and transformative power of words and storytelling.
In Gifts, Orrec and Gry will inherit both their families' domains and their "gifts," the ability to communicate with animals, or control a mind, or maim or kill with only a word and gesture. Both discover their gifts are not what they thought. In Voices, Memer lives in a city conquered by fundamentalist and superstitious soldiers who have made reading and writing forbidden. But in Memer's house there is a secret room where the last few books in the city have been hidden. And in the Nebula Award-winning Powers, the young slave Gavir can remember any book after reading it just once. It makes him valuable, but it also makes him a threat. Gav sets out to understand who he is, where he came from, and what his gift means.
This deluxe edition features Le Guin's own previously unseen hand-drawn maps. Included in an appendix are essays and interviews about the novels, as well as Le Guin's pronunciation guide to the names and languages of the Western Shore.

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.

THE NEW EARTHSEA NOVEL--NOW IN MASS MARKET
World Fantasy Award Winner--Best Novel

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.
Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ‘before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.’ Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero’s long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors’ greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars.
This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew.
With a new introduction by Donna Haraway, the eminent cyberfeminist, author of the revolutionary A Cyborg Manifesto and most recently, Staying with the Trouble and Manifestly Haraway.
With images by Lee Bul, a leading South Korean feminist artist who had a retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery in 2018.

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 readings. 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.

“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind — strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos, with an eloquence, wit, and precision that makes for exhilarating reading.

The inaugural volume of Library of America’s Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the central european country of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. The stories originally published in Orsinian Tales (1976) offer brilliantly rendered episodes of personal drama set against a history that spans Orsinia’s emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth century to its absorption by the eastern Bloc after World War II. The volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bring the history of Orsinia up to 1989, the poem “Folksong from the Montayna Province,” Le Guin’s first published work, and two never before published songs in the Orisinian language.

Exclusive 3-in-1 harcover book. Includes A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA: The windswept isles of Earthsea were famous for wizards, and the greatest of all was Ged, called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon and crossed deaths threshold to restore the balance.
THE TOMBS OF ATUAN: Chosen to serve the Ancient and Nameless Powers of the Earth, Tenar is taken away from her home and family to become Arha, the Priestess Ever Reborn, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While learning her way through the gloomy Labyrinth that is her domain, she encounters Ged, a wizard come to steal the Tombs greatest treasure. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, a light as forbidden in the Tombs as wizards are in the Kargad Lands....
THE FARTHEST SHORE: Ill-tidings have arrived on the Isle of the Wise: The springs of wizardry are drying up. Driven to seek the source of the trouble, Archmage Ged embarks on a perilous journey with the boy-prince, Arren. Their travels take them to a land cursed with a strange soul sickness, to an encounter with Orm Embar, the greatest of the worlds dragons, and into the realm of death itself. For if the balance of magic is not restored, darkness will overtake the world. Jacket art by Leo and Diane Dillon.

A rich, poetic, and socially relevant version of the great spiritual and philosophical classic of Taoism from one of America's leading literary figures.
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 and including extensive personal commentary throughout, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world.

No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le Guin, best known for thought-provoking science fiction novels that have helped to transform the genre, has studied the Tao Te Ching for more than forty years. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with Chinese scholars to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the poetic beauty of the work. Avoiding scholarly interpretations and esoteric Taoist insights, she has revealed the Tao Te Ching 's immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, in a way that shows better than ever before why it has been so much loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin's own personal commentary and notes on the text. This new version is sure to be welcomed by the many readers of the Tao Te Ching as well as those coming to the text for the first time.

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time in one breathtaking volume.
Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works as represented in the wonderful The Found and the Lost.
Includes:
-Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
-Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
-Hernes
-The Matter of Seggri
-Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea
-Forgiveness Day
-A Man of the People
-A Woman's Liberation
-Old Music and the Slave Women
-The Finder
-On the High Marsh
-Dragonfly
-Paradises Lost
This collection is a literary treasure chest that belongs in every home library.

《地海巫师》（A Wizard of Earthsea）是美国作家娥苏拉·勒瑰恩于1968年发表的奇幻小说，是地海系列的第一部长篇小说，曾获1969年的波士顿全球号角书奖。故事叙述传奇法师格得的少年成长过程。
在地海世界，一个充满著岛屿、海洋、魔法的奇幻世界，万物皆有真名。而当知晓了某物／人之真名，便能成为其主人。
少年格得（Ged）是弓忒岛上的牧羊童，天生拥有强大的法力天赋，由于渴望智识法艺更上层楼，而在授与他真名雀鹰(Sparrowhawk)的师傅欧吉安推荐下，前往柔克岛的巫师学院，学习更高深的魔法知识。他因才华出众而在学院里备受瞩目，但也因心高气傲而铸下大错：某日，格得为同侪所激，挑战触犯禁忌的秘术，召唤亡灵，却遭到未知的黑影袭击，几乎丧命。
在休养康复之后，格得完成学院学业，领受巫杖，前往担任九十屿群岛的守护巫师，并且击败蟠多之龙完成任务。然而黑影的威胁仍在——这来自无名之地的无形怪物渴望侵夺格得的身体。格得在恐惧之下逃离，却又误入陷阱，在北方的瓯司可岛险些成为黑暗太古力的奴仆，最后他变换身形成为旅鹰，飞翔回到弓忒岛。在那儿，欧吉安给了他一个建议：“转身”。格得理解到，逃亡漫无目标、操之在人，并又无法解决问题，他应当主动追寻，自己选择前进的方向。
出乎意料地，当格得起而迎战时，黑影竟从他面前遁去。于是双方立场倒转，格得在学院好友费渠（Vetch）的协助下，驾船在海上追逐黑影，直至东陲海域尽头。最终格得理解到黑影其实是他自己的另一面，借由以自己的真名“格得”呼唤黑影，他重新合而为一，为自己所犯的误失画下句点。

In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes."The Lathe of Heaven" is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.

A Nebula and Hugo Award-winning writer of science fiction presents a collection of essays that explores the various issues, concepts, challenges, and paradoxes that confront the science fiction writer.

Orsinia ... a land of medieval forests, stonewalled cities, and railways reaching into the mountains where the old gods dwell. A country where life is harsh, dreams are gentle, and people feel torn by powerful forces and fight to remain whole. In this enchanting collection, Ursula K. Le Guin brings to mainstream fiction the same compelling mastery of word and deed, of story and character, of violence and love, that has won her the Pushcart Prize, and the Kafka and National Book Awards.</p>

點亮一盞燭光，便投出一道陰影。
弓忒島的牧童達尼天生擁有法力天賦，渴望讓智識和法藝更上層樓。他選擇離開沈靜的森林故鄉，前往傳奇的巫師學院大展抱負。為了證明自己的實力，他當眾召喚亡靈──卻鑄下大錯。夢魘緊追著他到冰天雪地和杳無人煙之處；太古的邪惡想誘惑他，旅途中充滿未可知的變數。他該如何彌補當年的過錯？
從牧童達尼到地海大法師格得的成長蛻變之路，每一段過程都在召喚我們對自我、對他人、對這世界的種種體會。地海故事的感染力讓人在閱讀中彷彿呼吸著地海氣息，而整個地海世界，正是真實生命中萬事萬物的觀照和反映。
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勒瑰恩的文字好像永遠比你要蒼老、世故、天真，而且洞悉人世，那是太古而來的音響，存有知曉海裡的每一滴水不可能被一一喚出真名的智慧。——吳明益（東華大學華文系教授）
娥蘇拉．勒瑰恩是我最喜歡的女作家之一。──村上春樹
想像力豐富，風格上乘，超越托爾金，更遠勝多麗絲．萊辛。勒瑰恩在當代奇幻與科幻文學界中，實已樹立無人可及的範例。──哈洛．卜倫
娥蘇拉．勒瑰恩在這部優異的三部曲中創造了龍與魔法的「地海世界」，已然取代托爾金的「中土」，成為異世界冒險的最佳場所。──倫敦週日時報
一如所有偉大的小說家，娥蘇拉．勒瑰恩創造的幻想世界重建了我們自身，是放了心靈。──波士頓全球報
她的人物複雜，令人難忘；文筆以堅韌優雅著稱。──時代雜誌
勒瑰恩是科幻小說界的重量級作家之一，她的這部作品同時具有經典及入門的意義，值得細細品讀。──廖咸浩（台大外文系教授）
同樣寫巫師、談法術、論人性，看「哈利波特」乃知其然，而讀「地海」則知其所以然。「地海六部曲」情節緊湊，意喻深玄悠遠，搓揉東方哲思，兼及譯文流暢，讀來彷入武俠之境，令人沈陷迴盪。二十世紀美國青少年幻想小說經典作品，你不能擦身而過。──劉鳳芯（中興大學外文系副教授）
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