![]() ![]() ![]() The first of a two-volume collection focuses on stories that are occasionally tinged with magic but remain primarily realistic. It gives her speculations a resonance, a gravity that few writers, mainstream or generic, can match /rebates/2f97814814759692fUnreal-Real-Selected-Short-Stories-14814759672fplp&. Mystery of all mysteries The door to the hidden. Two things, one origin, but different in name, whose identity is mystery. So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. She never turns away from how flinty the heart of the world is. Heaven and earth begin in the unnamed: name’s the mother of the ten thousand things. What makes her so extraordinary for me is that her commitment to the consequences of our actions, of our all too human frailties, is unflinching and almost without precedent for a writer of such human optimism. ![]() ![]() 1: What on Earth Introduction Brothers and Sisters (1976. I read her non-stop growing up and read her still. The Unreal and the Real: Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Such is the fate of the truly great writers, whose stories far outlive their names - GUARDIAN A millennium on and her stories will be so familiar, like myths and fairytales today, that only dedicated scholars will ask who wrote them. Five centuries from now they might ask if their author ever really existed, or if Le Guin was an identity made from the work of many writers rolled into one. Le Guin: Where on EarthĪ century from now people will still be reading the fantasy stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Binding: Paperback Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press. Praise for The Unreal and the Real Volume 1: Selected Stories of Ursula K. The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. ![]()
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