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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin | |
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| Name: |
Ursula K. Le Guin | | Birth Date: |
October 21, 1929 | | Place of Birth: |
Berkeley, California, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer, teacher |
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 Biography of Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin
17529 words, approx. 58.4 pages
 [This entry was updated by Nancy Barendse (Charleston Southern University) from her update in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, of the entry by Brian Attebery (College of Idaho) in DLB 8: Twentieth-Century American Science... summary from source:
 Biography of Ursula K. Le Guin
17122 words, approx. 57.1 pages
Ursula K. Le Guin is a writer of great versatility and power, acclaimed for her science fiction, fantasy, and children's literature. All her fiction is distinguished by careful craftsmanship, a limpid prose style, realistic detail in the creation of imag... summary from source:
Biography of Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin
12913 words, approx. 43 pages
In a decade and a half, since Ursula K. LeGuin's first novel appeared as one half of an Ace Double paperback, she has become one of the most important writers in the field of science fiction. Le Guin writes the sort of stories science-fiction critics hav...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Left Hand of Darkness Summary
4,026 words, approx. 13 pagesThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber was born in Berkeley, California, on October 21, 1929. Her parents were Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist of international repute, and Theodora Kroeber, who later became a successful writer.... summary from source:
 The Left Hand of Darkness Information
2,693 words, approx. 9 pages
 <i>The Left Hand of Darkness</i> is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1969. The book is one of the first major works of feminist science fiction. It won the 1969 Nebula and 1970 Hugo awards. Plans for a feature film and...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Robert Scholes
1,207 words, approx. 4 pages
[Ursula K. Le Guin] has been compared to C. S. Lewis, with some appropriateness, especially as concerns her juvenile trilogy, but that comparison fails ultimately because she is a better writer than Lewis: her fictions, both juvenile and adult, are richer, deeper, and more beautiful than his. She is probably the best writer of speculative fabulation working in this country today, and she deserves a place among our major contemporary writers of fiction. For some writers, the SF ghetto serves a useful protect... summary from source:
Critical Essay by David Ketterer
834 words, approx. 3 pages
[The Left Hand of Darkness] functions as a science-fiction novel about the writing of a science-fiction novel and is particularly informative for that reason. Since the various fictional genres can be meaningfully defined in relation to basic myths or to segments of myth, the mythic concern of LeGuin's novel, in spite of its attendant deleterious effects on the narrative, does have its point. (p. 77) Making sense of the novel, and this is its essential weakness, depends upon an act of dislocation on ...
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