Ursula k. le guin: hainish novels and stories vol. 2 (loa #297): the word for world is forest / five ways to forgiveness / the telling / stories - ursula k. le guin

The star-spanning story of humanitys colonization of other planets, Ursula K.

Le Guins visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of modern science fiction, making it a rich field for literary explorations of the nature of human nature, as Margaret Atwood has described Le Guins subject.

Now, for the first time, the complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in a definitive two-volume Library of America edition, with new introductions by the author.

This second volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers Le Guins final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest , in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling , the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage.

Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness , published here in full for the first time.

The endpapers feature a full-color chart of the known worlds of Hainish descent.

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