The Wind's Twelve Quarters [Hardcover]

Ursula K. Le GUIN (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Harper & Row; 1St Edition edition (1975)
• ISBN-10: 0960877029
• ISBN-13: 978-0960877027
• ASIN: B000I1I7E2
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,898,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection of short stories, February 4, 2007

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This review is from: The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Hardcover)

I bought this book for the first story "Semley's Necklace" however; all of them will surpass your expectations. Ursula has a unique way with words that rival her tales.

The Winds Twelve Quarters Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper & Row, 1975, hc)

Foreword

Semley's Necklace ["The Dowry of Angyar"] - ss Amazing Sep '64

April in Paris - ss Fantastic Sep '62

The Masters - ss Fantastic Feb '63

Darkness Box - ss Fantastic Nov '63

The Word of Unbinding - ss Fantastic Jan '64

The Rule of Names - ss Fantastic Apr '64

Winter's King - nv Orbit 5, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam's, 1969

The Good Trip - ss Fantastic Aug '70

Nine Lives - nv Playboy Nov '69

Things ["The End"] - ss Orbit 6, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam's, 1970

A Trip to the Head - ss Quark #1, ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, 1970

Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - nv New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971

The Stars Below - ss Orbit 14, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row, 1974

The Field of Vision - ss Galaxy Oct '73

Direction of the Road - ss Orbit 12, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam's, 1973

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973

The Day Before the Revolution - ss Galaxy Aug '74

A little about Ursula:

Legal Name: Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber

Birthplace: Berkeley, California, USA

Birthdate: 21 October 1929

Received Nebula Awards for the novels "The Left Hand of Darkness," "The Dispossessed," and "Tehanu"; for the novella "Solitude"; and for the short story "The Day Before the Revolution."

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