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Gifts (2004) is a young adult fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin.It is the first book in the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, and is followed in the series by Voices.The story is set in a fictional world, in a barren and poverty-stricken region called the Uplands, some of whose inhabitants have hereditary magical gifts.
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The book is based on the last six books, or the Iliadic half, of the Aeneid.It is written in a first-person style, and the character Lavinia is aware that she may only exist in the context of a story which an outside narrator is recounting.
Annals of the Western Shore is a young adult fantasy series by Ursula K. Le Guin. [1] It consists of three books: Gifts (2004), Voices (2006), and Powers (2007). Each book has different main characters and settings, but the books are linked by some recurring characters and locations.
The name was best used in the Anglosphere in the 16th century but has since been rather uncommon in English-speaking countries, although its use has been influenced since the twentieth century by the Swiss-born actress Ursula Andress (born 1936). [1] It was among the most popular names for newborn girls in Germany from the 1920s to the 1950s. [2]
Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was the daughter of a judge, [1] or as she put it "middle-class but honest parents". [2] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, in Surrey, and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she "came to life", [2] receiving a first-class degree in English language and literature.
The Beginning Place is a short novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, written in 1980.It was subsequently published under the title Threshold in 1986. The story's genre is a mixture of realism and fantasy literature.
The Compass Rose is a 1982 collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, and illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1983. It is organized into sections on the theme of directions, though not strictly compass-related as the title implies.