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The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time - but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him. So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a place of more liberty and tolerance. Initially feted, Shevek soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.With powerful themes of freedom, society and the natural world s influence on competition and co-operation, THE DISPOSSESSED is a true classic of the 20th century.
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Steering the Craft - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Steering the Craft is Ursula K. Le Guinâ ™s carrier bag of the essentials of a writerâ ™s craft, a generous gift from one of the great thinkers about how â “ and why â “ to write.This handbook is an accessible and profound guide to the craft of writing and editing. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Drawing on the global canon, Le Guin offers her inimitably witty commentary and incisive dissection, developing into an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. No other writing guide offers such a comprehensive, experienced and kind approach to â œsteering the craftâ as a writing crew.Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writerâ ™s shelf.
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The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Ursula K. Le Guinová
By Ursula K. Le GuinIntroduction by Donna HarawayImages by Lee Bul In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells 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: â ˜before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.â ™ Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Heroâ ™s killing tools, our ancestorsâ ™ 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, where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated and beloved author of twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve childrenâ ™s books, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebulas, nine Hugos and SFWAâ ™s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.
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The Word for World - Ursula K. Le Guinová
When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re-envision our own.Le Guinâ ™s maps offer journeys of consciousness beyond conventional cartography, from the Rorschach-like archipelagos of Earthsea to the talismanic maps of Always Coming Home. Rather than remaining within known terrain, they open up paradigms of knowledge, exemplified by the mapâ ™s edges and how a map is read, made and re-made, together. The Word for World brings her maps together with poems, stories, interviews, recipes and essays by contributors from a variety of perspectives to enquire into the relationship between worlds and the imagination and representation of them.With contributions by Federico Campagna, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Daniel Heath Justice, Bhanu Kapil, Canisia Lubrin, Una McCormack, David Naimon, Nisha Ramayya, Shoshone Collective, Standard Deviation, Marilyn Strathern.Co-published by Spiral House and AA Publications to coincide with an exhibition of Ursula K. Le Guinâ ™s maps at the Architectural Association, London, opening on 10 October 2025.
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The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea - ...reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago (David Mitchell) - comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating Le Guin s vision of her classic saga. Contains the short story, The Daughter of Odren , published in print for the first time, and her last story Firelight .Ursula K. Le Guin s Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature-they have received prestigious accolades such as the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the Nebula Award, and many more honors, commemorating their enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and the literary world alike.Now for the first time ever, they re all together in one volume-including the early short stories, Le Guin s Earthsea Revisioned Oxford lecture, and new Earthsea stories, never before printed. With a new introduction by Le Guin herself, this essential edition will also include over fifty illustrations by renowned artist Charles Vess, specially commissioned and selected by Le Guin, to bring her refined vision of Earthsea and its people to life in a totally new way.Stories include: A Wizard of Earthsea , The Tombs of Atuan , The Farthest Shore , Tehanu , Tales From Earthsea , The Other Wind , The Rule of Names , The Word of Unbinding , The Daughter of Odren , and Earthsea Revisioned: A Lecture at Oxford University With stories as perennial and universally beloved as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of The Rings-but also unlike anything but themselves-this edition is perfect for those new to the world of Earthsea, as well as those who are well-acquainted with its enchanting magic: to know Earthsea is to love it.- 1,008 pages- 56 illustrations (including seven lavishly coloured plate sections)- maps of Earthsea- stunningly beautiful endpapers- Six novels- 4 short stories- An essay
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The Lathe Of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their centre ... Literature will miss her. There s no one like her Zadie Smith Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power OBSERVERThrough his dreams, George Orr can make alternate realities real - but who is controlling him?War rages and global warming wreaks havoc on the quality of life everywhere as seven billion people jostle for living space and food.For George Orr, a mild and unremarkable man, the world is overwhelmingly difficult. But George is different: his dreams can change reality - although he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power. Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help, directing George to dream a world without racism.But as ambition gets the better of ethics, no one can predict the devastating consequences.
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The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guinová
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart David Mitchell Love doesn t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of persecution. What they have in common is curiosity, about others and themselves, and an almost unshakeable belief that the world can be a better place. As they journey for over 800 miles, across the harshest, most inhospitable landscape, they discover the true meaning of friendship, and of love.
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Earthsea: The First Four Books - Ursula K. Le Guinová
One of the classic works of fantasy by renowned writer of the genre, Ursula K. Le Guin. One of the literary greats of the 20th century Margaret AtwoodAs a young dragonlord, Ged, whose use-name is Sparrowhawk, is sent to the island of Roke to learn the true way of magic. A natural magician, Ged becomes an Archmage and helps the High Priestess Tenar escape from the labyrinth of darkness. But as the years pass, true magic and ancient ways are forced to submit to the powers of evil and death. Including: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore; Tehanu.
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Křídločky - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Co kdyby kočky dovedly létat? První české vydání klasické dětské knížky legendární autorky. Všechny čtyři díly v jednom svazku. Ursula K. Le Guinová znala kočky natolik dobře, že v těchto příbězích o nich nenajdete jediné nepravdivé slovo (až na ta křídla, samozřejmě). Drobná dobrodružství okřídlených koťat nenápadně nastolují autorčina klíčová témata, například to, že svoboda je vždycky důležitější než sláva. Kniha je souborným vydáním všech čtyř dílů, které v originále vycházely postupně a s velkým časovým odstupem: 1. Křídločky 2. Křídločky se vrací 3. Úžasný Alexandr a křídločky 4. Jana už je velká
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Křídločky - varianta B - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Co kdyby kočky dovedly létat? První české vydání klasické dětské knížky legendární autorky. Všechny čtyři díly v jednom svazku. Ursula K. Le Guinová znala kočky natolik dobře, že v těchto příbězích o nich nenajdete jediné nepravdivé slovo (až na ta křídla, samozřejmě). Drobná dobrodružství okřídlených koťat nenápadně nastolují autorčina klíčová témata, například to, že svoboda je vždycky důležitější než sláva.
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Dreams Must Explain Themselves - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Ursula K. Le Guin has won or been nominated for over 200 awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master Awards. She is the acclaimed author of the Earthsea sequence and The Left Hand of Darkness - which alone would qualify her for literary immortality - as well as a remarkable body of short fiction, including the powerful, Hugo-winning The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas and the masterpiece of anthropological and environmental SF The Word for World is Forest - winner of the Hugo Award for best novella. But Ursula Le Guin s talents do not stop at fiction. Over the course of her extraordinary career, she has penned numerous essays around themes important to her: anthropology, environmentalism, feminism, social justice and literary criticism to name a few. She has responded in detail to criticism of her own work and even reassessed that work in the context of such critiques. This selection of the best of Le Guin s non-fiction shows an agile mind, an unparalleled imagination and a ferocious passion to argue against injustice. In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and her widely praised acceptance speech is one of the highlights of this volume, which shows that one of modern literature s most original voices is also one of its purest consciences.
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The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guinová
A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence.In defending their lives, they endanger the very foundations of their society. Every blow against the invaders is a blow to the core of Athsheans culture. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.Winner of the 1973 Hugo award for Best Novella, and nominated for many others, The Word for World is Forest is part of Le Guin s Hainish Cycle . It explores a future history of Earth and pacifistic ideals in its depictions of violence, colonialism and resistance. A simple story that, like most things Le Guin wrote, packs a powerful emotional and critical punch - Tordotcom Deeply moving and shocking by turns - Suzanne Reid Le Guin writes in quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are being torn apart by massive forces in society .. . and who fight courageously to remain whole - The New York Times Book ReviewWelcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction
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The Other Wind - Ursula K. Le Guinová
The sixth book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Furthest Shore, Tehanu and Tales from Earthsea.With illustrations from Charles Vess Le Guin s words are magical. Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it David MitchellThese five superlative, evocative and enchanting stories range from a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea to just before The Other Wind, and feature some of Le Guin s most popular characters, including the Wizard Ged himself. The stories are rounded off with an essay about Earthsea s history and people.No Earthsea fan will want to be without this magical collection. [Earthsea is] a memorable exploration of the relationship between life and death Magaret Atwood
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The Lathe Of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend THE TIMES Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power OBSERVERGeorge Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality - and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power.Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help. At first sceptical of George s powers, he comes to astonished belief. When he allows ambition to get the better of ethics, George finds himself caught up in a situation of alarming peril.
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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching - Ursula K. Le Guinová
A rich, poetic, and socially relevant version of the great spiritual-philosophical classic of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching—from a legendary literary icon Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin’s unique take on Taoist philosophy’s founding classic. 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. Jargon-free but still faithful to the poetic beauty of the original work, Le Guin’s unique translation is sure to be welcomed by longtime readers of the Tao Te Ching as well as those discovering the text for the first time.
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A Fisherman of the Inland Sea - Ursula K. Le Guinová
The award-winning stories in this collection range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart. Featuring such objects of the imagination as a starship that sails on the wings of song, musical instruments that are played at funerals only, and orbiting arks designed to save a doomed humanity.Astonishing in their diversity and power, these stories exhibit both the artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of wonder still intact.
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The Other Wind - Ursula K. Le Guinová
A masterpiece of chilling narration GUARDIAN Wise, graceful, classic myth-making THE SCOTSMANThe wizard Alder comes from Roke to the island of Gont in search of the Archmage, Lord Sparrowhawk, once known as Ged. The man who was once the most powerful wizard in the Islands now lives with his wife Tenar and their adopted daughter Tehanu. Alder needs help: his beloved wife died and in his dreams she calls him to the land of the dead - and now the dead are haunting him, begging for release. He can no longer sleep, and the Wizards of Earthsea are worried. But there is more at stake than the unquiet rest of one minor wizard: for the dragons of Earthsea have arisen, to reclaim the lands that were once theirs. Only Tehanu, herself daughter of a dragon, can talk to them; it may be that Alder s dreams hold the key to the salvation of Earthsea and all the peoples who live there.
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Earthsea: The First Four Books - Ursula K. Le Guinová
A Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * Tehanu Ged is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician.And it is as the Archmage Sparrowhawk that he helps the High Priestess Tenar escape the labyrinth of darkness. But over the years, Ged witnesses true magic and the ancient ways submit to the forces of evil and death. Will he too succumb, or can he hold them back?
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The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guinová
When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.
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The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guinová
The second book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Furthest Shore and TehanuWith illustrations from Charles Vess Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it David MitchellIn this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, and everything is taken from her - home, family, possessions, even her name. She is now known only as Arha, the Eaten One, and guards the shadowy, labyrinthine Tombs of Atuan.Then a wizard, Ged Sparrowhawk, comes to steal the Tombs greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. Tenar s duty is to protect the Ring, but Ged possesses the light of magic and tales of a world that Tenar has never known. Will Tenar risk everything to escape from the darkness that has become her domain?
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So Far So Good - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her ground-breaking science fiction novels, but she began as a poet, and wrote across genres for her entire career. In this clarifying and sublime collection â “ completed shortly before her death in 2018 â “ Le Guin is unflinching in the face of mortality, and full of wonder for the mysteries beyond. Redolent of the lush natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, with rich sounds playfully echoing myth and nursery rhyme, Le Guin bookends a long, daring, and prolific career.
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Gwilanina harfa a jiné povídky - Ursula K. Le Guinová
První výbor z povídkového díla světoznámé autorky vydaný v češtině je možno chápat jako stručný nástin jejího pojetí fantasy a sci-fi žánru. Obsahuje texty radostné i smutné, průzračně poetické i filosoficky vážné, ale vždycky plné soucitu, empatie a lásky k pravdě, svobodě a ke všemu živému. Najdeme zde jednu z autorčiných prvních povídek Duben v Paříži (1962), i jednu z těch úplně posledních, Džbán vody (2014), a nechybí ani nový překlad proslulého textu Ti, kdož odcházejí z Omélasu. Sbírka 24 povídek, které pečlivě vybral editor Jakub Němeček, představuje nejrůznější autorčiny styly a postupy a je vhodná pro ty, kdo Le Guinovou ještě vůbec neznají, i pro ty, kdo si ji už zamilovali.
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The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Genly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male ot female at the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien, unsophisticated and confusing. But he is drawn into the complex politics of the planet and, during a long, tortuous journey across the ice with a politician who has fallen from favour and has been outcast, he loses his professional detachment and reaches a painful understanding of the true nature of Gethenians and, in a moving and memorable sequence, even finds love...
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Tales from Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guinová
One of the most deeply influential of all 20th century fantasy texts ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and complex characters GUARDIAN I d love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin Roddy DoyleThese five superlative, evocative and enchanting stories range from a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea to just before The Other Wind, and feature some of Le Guin s most popular characters, including the Wizard Ged himself. The stories are rounded off with an essay about Earthsea s history and people.No Earthsea fan will want to be without this magical collection.
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Five Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Set in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these five linked stories follow far-future human colonies living in the distant solar system. Here is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin s acclaimed Hainish series, which tells the history of the Ekumen, the galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain. First published as Four Ways to Forgiveness, and now joined by a fifth story, the tales focus on the twin planets Werel and Yeowe - two worlds whose peoples, long known as owners and assets, together face an uncertain future after civil war and revolution. A retired science teacher must make peace with her new neighbour, a disgraced revolutionary leader. A female official from the Ekumen arrives to survey the situation on Werel and struggles against its rigidly patriarchal culture. The coming of age of Havzhiva, an Ekumen ambassador to Yeowe, is Le Guin s most sustained description of the Ur-planet Hain. Rakam, born an asset on Werel, must twice escape from slavery to freedom. And a charismatic Hainish embassy worker, who appears in two of the four original stories, returns for a tale of his own. As good as any contemporary at creating worlds, imaginary or our own TIME Magazine
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Space Crone - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth centuryâ ™s rebellions and upheavals, including womenâ ™s liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space Crone brings together Le Guinâ ™s writings on feminism and gender for the first time, offering new insights into her imaginative, multispecies feminist consciousness: from its roots in deep ecology and philosophies of non-violence to her self-education about racism and her writing on motherhood and ageing.
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Earthsea: The First Four Books - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Rebel Voices: Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Classics collection, celebrating International Women s Day 2023 One of the literary greats of the 20th century - Margaret AtwoodEarthsea: The First Four Books is a collection of one of the most beloved and influential fantasy works of all time. The series follows two main characters: Ged, who grows from an arrogant boy to one of the most powerful mages Earthsea has ever known; and Tenar, who escapes her fate as a child-priestess, and must fight for a life of her own.Filled with soaring, dangerous and beautifully-spun magic; evocative, sweeping settings; and extraordinarily vivid, emotionally complex characters, once read, the Earthsea series will never be forgotten.Rebel Voices is a new six-part Puffin Classics collection of strikingly designed, highly collectible books, written by female authors, and celebrating courage, rebellion, strength and inspiration.Praise for The Tombs of Atuan (book two): A classic of stealth-missile literature, a fantasy adventure that s actually a feminist horror thriller. Entertainment Weekly
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A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guinová, Fred Fordham
A stunning graphic novel edition of the classic fantasy adventure, with a foreword by Theo Downes-Le Guin.A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin was first published in the UK in 1971 and has been considered a classic of children s fantasy ever since. It follows the story of Ged, a poor smithâ ™s son, who discovers a magical talent and is sent away from home to a wizard school. During a duel with a fellow student, he summons a terrible shadow creature which he tries to banish, but it continues to haunt him long after he finishes his magical training. Finally he seeks advice from his old master Ogion, who tells him to confront the creature rather than flee it â “ that fears and shadows are to be faced, and that darkness is as much a part of us as the light.A beautiful, skilful adaptation of a classic of childrenâ ™s literature for a new readership and new generation â “ making this remarkable book accessible to visual, reluctant readers as well as graphic novel fans.
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Gifts - Ursula K. Le Guinová
She s showing no signs of losing her brilliance. She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and complex characters... GIFTS has the simplicity of fairy tale and the power of myth GUARDIAN Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power OBSERVEROrrec, the son of the Brantor of Caspromant, and Gry, daughter of the Brantors of Barre and Rodd, have grown up together, running half-wild across the Uplands. The people there are like their land: harsh and fierce and prideful; ever at war with each other.Only the gifts keep the fragile peace. The Barre gift is calling animals. The women of Cordemant have the power of blinding, or making deaf, or taking away speech. The Rodds can send a spellknife into a man s heart. The Callems can move heavy things - even buildings, even hills. The Caspro gift is the worst and best of all: it is the gift of undoing: an insect, an animal, a place ...Orrec and Gry are the heirs to Caspro and Barre. Gry s gift runs true, but she refuses to call animals for the hunt. Orrec too is a problem, for his gift of undoing is wild: he cannot control it - and that is the most dangerous gift of all ...GIFTS is Ursula Le Guin at her best: an exciting, moving story beautifully told.
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Kroniky Západního pobřeží - omnibus - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Kroniky Západního pobřeží, tvořené trojicí volně propojených románů, představují stěžejní dílo Ursuly K. Le Guinové. V Darech přivádí autorka čtenáře do Vysočiny, odlehlého horského kraje, jehož obyvatelé jsou obdařeni dědičnými dary – mimořádnými schopnostmi, ale často děsivými. Co se stane, když Orrec a jeho kamarádka odmítnou tyto dary, klíčové pro přežití svých rodů, používat? Děj románu Hlasy se odehrává v Ansulu, městě kdysi vyhlášeném svou vzdělaností, nyní okupovaném pouštním národem, který považuje knihy za démony. Dokáže Memer, vyrůstající ve zbytcích staré univerzity, uchránit tajemství svého domu i během bouřlivých událostí, jež rozpoutá příchod věhlasného básníka. Román Síly, za nějž autorka získala cenu Nebula, sleduje osudy mladého otroka s dokonalou pamětí a schopností nahlížet do budoucnosti. Může pohodlí jeho domu vynahradit mladíkovi svobodu, po níž touží? A co si se svobodou počne, když ji nakonec získá? Romány spojuje řada společných témat – věk hlavních hrdinů a jejich dospívání v často nepřátelském prostředí, boj proti společenským konvencím, a především láska ke svobodě, literatuře a vzdělání.
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Velká kniha Zeměmoří, svazek druhý - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Po více než padesáti letech, které uplynuly od vydání nestárnoucího, stále milovaného Čaroděje Zeměmoří, přichází souhrnné vydání všech příběhů slavného Zeměmořského cyklu, obohacené o více než dvacet překrásných ilustrací Mikuláše Podprockého, jež doplňují klasické dílo úžasné představivosti velmistryně žánru Ursuly Kroeber Le Guinové. Zeměmořské romány patří mezi nejoceňovanější a nejoblíbenější díla moderní literatury. Dostalo se jim prestižních ocenění včetně americké Národní knižní ceny, Ceny Johna Newberyho, Nebuly a mnoha dalších, což jen upevnilo zvláštní místo, jež zaujímají v srdcích i myslích nespočtu čtenářů. Vůbec poprvé vycházejí všechny ve dvou mohutných svazcích, v nichž mimo jiné najdete několik povídek, z nichž některé vycházejí v českém překladu vůbec poprvé.
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion - Ursula K. Le Guinová
From the multi-award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea sequence comes this single-volume omnibus of the first three Hainish novels.Intergalactic war reaches Fomalhaut II in Rocannon s World.Born out of season, a precocious young girl visits the alien city of the farborns and the false-men in Planet of Exile.In City of Illusions a stranger wandering in the forest people s woods is found and his health restored; now the fate of two worlds rests in this stranger s hands . . .The three novels contained in this volume are the books that launched Ursula K. Le Guin s glittering career, and are set in the same universe as her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
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A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guinová
One of the literary greats of the 20th century Margaret AtwoodThe first book of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin is a tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The island of Gont is a land famous for wizards. Of these, some say the greatest - and surely the greatest voyager - is the man called Sparrowhawk. As a reckless, awkward boy, he discovered the great power that was in him - with terrifying consequences. Tempted by pride to try spells beyond his means, Sparrowhawk lets loose an evil shadow-beast in his land. Only he can destroy it, and the quest leads him to the farthest corner of Earthsea.
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Tehanu - Ursula K. Le Guinová
The fourth book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and The Furthest Shore.With illustrations from Charles VessIn this fourth novel in the Earthsea series, we rejoin the young priestess the Tenar and powerful wizard Ged. Years before, they had helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Together, they shared an adventure like no other. Tenar has since embraced the simple pleasures of an ordinary life, while Ged mourns the powers lost to him through no choice of his own. Now the two must join forces again and help another in need-the physically, emotionally scarred child whose own destiny has yet to be revealed.... Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it David Mitchell
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Lavinia - Ursula K. Le Guinová
She chose love. The price she paid was war.A stunning combination of history and mythology - an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel FINANCIAL TIMESREADERS on LAVINIA: Utterly compelling ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clever twist ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Super ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn t be given, wouldn t be taken, but chose my man and my fate Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father s closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia s mother favours her own kinsman, handsome, heroic, everything a young girl should want. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods holy place and tells her of her future, and Aeneas past... If she refuses to wed her mother s choice, Lavinia knows she will start a war... Subtly moving, playful...a novel that brought me to tears more than once. Lavinia is a delightful heroine GUARDIAN
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A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guinová
The first book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with The Tombs of Atuan, The Furthest Shore and TehanuWith illustrations from Charles Vess Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it David MitchellGed, 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. The Earthsea trilogy . . . is a memorable exploration of the relationship between life and death. . . Ged, its hero, must face his shadow self before it devours him. Only then will he become whole. In the process, he must contend with the wisdom of dragons: ambiguous and not our wisdom, but wisdom nonetheless Magaret Atwood
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Voices - Ursula K. Le Guinová
Memer is a child of rape; when the Alds took the beautiful city of Ansul, they descecrated or destroyed everything of beauty. The Waylord they imprisoned and tortured for years until finally he is freed to return to his home. Though crippled, he is not destroyed. His life still has purpose. Memer is the daughter of his House, the daughter of his heart.The Alds, a people who love war, cannot and will not read: they believe that in words lie demons that will destroy the world. All the city s libraries, the great treasure trove of knowledge of ages past, are burned, except for those few volumes secreted inthe Waylord s hidden room.But times are changing. Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant have arrived in the city. Orrec is a story-teller, the most famous of all: he has the gift of making. His wife Gry s gift is that of calling; she walks with a halflion who both frightens and fascinates the Alds.This is Memer s story, and Gry s and Orrec s, and it is the story of a conquered people craving freedom.
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The Siege of Burning Grass: Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction - Premee Mohamed
The paperback release of 2024 s stunning meditation on war and violence by an award-winning author.The Empires of Varkal and Med’ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a ‘visionary’ scientist. But now they’re offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med’ariz’s flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy’s population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers. He should refuse to serve the warmongers, but what if he could end this pointless war once and for all? Is that worth compromising his own morals and the principles of his fellow resistance members?
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Rakesfall: Winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! - Vajra Chandrasekera
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages. No world can hold them, no life can bind them, and they ll never leave each other behind.
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Plameňák na konci léta: Malá antologie amerických žánrových autorek (978-80-906124-0-2)
Kniha - autor Charlie Jane Andersová; Kelly Barnhillová; Ursula K. Le Guinová; Pat Murphyov..., 152 stran, česky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Malý průřez současnou americkou fantastickou (ne-realistickou) literaturou psanou v duchu klasické vypravěčské tradice Poea, Twaina či Bradburyho, ovšem z ženského úhlu pohledu. Jednotlivé povídky jsou velmi různorodé, i když leccos mají společného: svobodný a suverénní přístup k žánru, skvělé vypravěčské řemeslo, vtip a nadhled… a ženské hlavní hrdinky. Šest malých klenotů vylovených z moře anglosaského psaní.
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The Dispossessed - Christophe Guilluy
Recent decades have witnessed protests that are unlike many of the social movements of previous centuries. They are not led by any party, union or leader, but by ordinary people. Their deep roots are existential rather than material. These protests are not driven by class consciousness or ideology but by the sense that people have been abandoned, stripped of their rights and shunted out to the peripheries of social and economic life. This is the movement of the dispossessed ⠓ of a mass of ordinary people who have gained a will of their own and are no longer content to comply with the directives of elites who want to tell them how to live and behave. The high-profile political events of recent years ⠓ Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of right-wing parties ⠓ are merely surface tremors of a much deeper tectonic shift caused by the slow displacement of a forgotten continent. In this book Christophe Guilluy uncovers this forgotten continent of the dispossessed and shows how ordinary people are rising up and responding to their programmed disappearance by forging an alternative to a doomed model.
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Orwell and the Dispossessed - George Orwell
Including Down and Out in Paris and London Orwell was the great moral force of his age SpectatorThe powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell s first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the two nations of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell s memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, living among the destitute and dispossessed, in which he exposes what going to the dogs is really like. There are also articles and letters on sleeping rough in Trafalgar Square, being arrested for drunkenness, on the poverty Orwell witnessed in Morocco and India, and his shocking essay, How the Poor Die .Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Peter Clarke
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Includes the hard-to-find The Art of Bunditsu, plus 30+ other delights from a lifetime of reflection on the mystery and magic of cats The presence of a cat keeps me in touch with the mystery, the unreasonableness, the beauty, the stubborn wildness of the nonhuman world. In her life as in her art, Ursula K. Le Guin was fascinated by the feline. This irresistable book about cats gathers poems, mediations, and drawings dedicated to the complicated creature that her captured her imagination. Here are: The Art of Bunditsu, Le Guin s hard-to-find tabbist meditation on the arranging of cats 26 cat poems, many illustrated by Le Guin herself The Historic First Issue! of Le Guin s one-of-a-kind cat comic book, Supermouse Comix! Cat Correspondence: letters between Le Guin s cat and those of her daughter detailing the Five Deliberations that cats spend their lives studying Cat Tai Chi, as depicted in a charming series of drawings A first-of-its-kind collection from a science fiction legend, this delightful purr-purri is a gift for cat lovers and Le Guin fans!
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Ethel the Penguin - Ursula Dubosarsky
An irresistibly fun story about the joy of having a wild and reckless friend from the beloved and bestselling author of The Terrible Plop.
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Cucina di Amalfi - Ferrigno Ursula
Discover a region in Southern Italy which offers the most tantalizing food, through 75 authentic recipes, cooked with care and attention and using the best ingredients.Italian food reflects culture. In Italy, cooking is the product of geography, history, and religion. “Italian cooking” is really a patchwork of local and regional cuisines, all fiercely claiming to be the best in the country. Ursula Ferrigno’s own family comes from the south of Italy, and just south of Naples is the Amalfi Coast. It is widely considered to be one of Italy’s most magical locations: breath-taking (literally) winding cliff-top roads, pastel-colored houses tumbling down towards the sea, flower-framed terraces, and trees heavy with the world’s most coveted lemons at every turn. Discover the delicious food the region has to offer. Vegetable dishes take center stage and both meat and fish are eaten and often combined in exciting ways. In this seductive book you’ll find 75 recipes to enjoy, from simple antipasti and ministre (soups) to pane (bread) and pizza, risotto, pollame and carne (fish and meat), and the all-important contorni (vegetable), alongside essays on the food culture and traditions of the area and beautiful scenic imagery.
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LEGO Marvel Spider-Man Explore the Spider-Verse - DK
Grab your Spidey-Suit and explore the Spider-Verse in this first-ever LEGO® Marvel Spider-Man™ book!Discover a vast multiverse of spidery Super Heroes and their unique worlds in this fun and engaging guide to the world of LEGO Marvel Spider-Man. Learn about the vehicles and locations and meet amazing superstars like Peter Parker, Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy ⠓ as well as lesser-known characters like Pork Grind and Scarlet Spider.Swing into action with LEGO Spider-Man as you explore the Spider-Verse:Features LEGO sets based on the Marvel Comics and films, showcasing a range of fan-favourite Spider-Man characters, vehicles, and locationsExplore LEGO Spider-Man⠙s world, gadgets and suits as you find out more about the web-slinging hero and his friendsAdd to your LEGO collection with an exclusive Spider-Man minifigure insideA wonderful gift for younger kids who love LEGO, Spider-Man, or both!This entry point to the Spider-Man multiverse is the perfect gift for young fans eager to know more about LEGO Spider-Man, giving them exciting facts and behind-the-scenes insights they won⠙t find anywhere else.© 2025 The LEGO Group© 2025 MARVEL
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On the Wrong Side - J. M. G. Le Clezio
A short story collection from Nobel Prize winner J. M. G. Le Clézio offers a poignant and powerful exploration of the lives of the underprivileged and marginalized. J. M. G. Le Clézioâ ™s On the Wrong Side, a collection of eight short stories, continues the authorâ ™s life-long pursuit of granting visibility to the unseen and a voice to the voiceless. Here, the author focuses on the underclasses, primarily children who have been left behind, abandoned, and subjected to unspeakable violence. In these haunting tales, we encounter Maureez Samson, a mistreated orphan from Rodrigues Island, who, thanks to her exceptional voice, becomes a famous singer and defies all expectations; some young Indians in Darién, a region straddling Panama and Colombia, struggle to raise their young son and save their idyllic land from its invasion and destruction by drug lords; Juanico and Chuche, two slave children who are taken in by the community of Saint Kateri Takakwitha after an arduous and perilous journey; and in Nogales, on the border between Mexico and the United States, the â œstreet rats,â children who cross through the sewers to wreak havoc and perhaps indulge their dreams of life on the other side. In Le Clézioâ ™s own words, these stories are not simply meant to reveal or describe the plight of the â œrejected,â but to â œcreate in the reader a feeling of revolt in the face of the injustice of what is happening to them.â
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The Pigeon Tunnel - John le Carré
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRÉ*NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE* As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen Financial TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carré has lived a unique life.In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he s interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, this book invites us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood.Best of all, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer s journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times Guardian When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré . . . These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind Aung San Suu Kyi
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The Real Economy - Jonathan Levy
A provocative new theory of â œthe economy,â its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics What is the economy, really? Is it a â œmarket sector,â a â œgeneral equilibrium,â or the â œgross domestic productâ ? Economics today has become so preoccupied with methods that economists risk losing sight of the economy itself. Meanwhile, other disciplines, although often intent on criticizing the methods of economics, have failed to articulate an alternative vision of the economy. Before the ascent of postwar neoclassical economics, fierce debates raged, as many different visions of the economy circulated and competed with one another. In The Real Economy, Jonathan Levy returns to the spirit of this earlier era, which, in all its contentiousness, gave birth to the discipline of economics. Drawing inspiration particularly from Thorstein Veblen and John Maynard Keynes, Levy proposes a theory of the economy that is open to rich empirical and historical scrutiny, covering topics that include the emergence of capitalism, the notion of radical uncertainty, the meaning of demand, the primal desire for money, the history of corporations, and contemporary globalization. Writing for anyone interested in the study of the economy, Levy provides an invaluable provocation for a broader debate in the social sciences and humanities concerning what â œthe economyâ is.
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Hugo Boss BOSS The Scent for Her Le Parfum parfém pro ženy 30 ml
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