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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.
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.
Euphrasie (a name from Greek Ευφράσια, "good cheer, joy"), nicknamed Cosette (lit. ' little thing ') by her mother, [2] [3] is the illegitimate daughter of Fantine and Félix Tholomyès, a rich student. She is born in Paris c. 1815.
Ursule is conspicuously virtuous, and Balzac was acutely aware of the difficulty of presenting a virtuous heroine in a novel. “Goodness has just one form, evil has a thousand”, he believed: [2] “to be able to portray many virgins, you need to be like Raphael” [3] He hoped that Ursule Mirouët would win the annual Prix Montyon for the book which had rendered the greatest service to ...
A Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin and first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968. It is regarded as a classic of children's literature and of fantasy, within which it is widely influential.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ ˈ k r oʊ b ər l ə ˈ ɡ w ɪ n / KROH-bər lə GWIN; [1] née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series.
The story is unusual for its point-of-view: Of the many books and stories on werewolves, few are written from the perspective of wolves.Le Guin goes to great lengths to conceal the nature of the narrator, fully exploiting the reader's assumptions to purposefully heighten the plot twist at the story's denouement.
Asian American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Asian descent. Since the 1970s, Asian American literature has grown from an emerging category to an established tradition [ 1 ] with numerous works becoming bestsellers [ 2 ] and winning mainstream awards, including the Pulitzer Prize [ 3 ] and the ...