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The Left Hand of Darkness Study Guide

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by Ursula K. Le Guin
About 90 pages (26,941 words)
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  Introduction

  Plot Summary

  Chapter Summaries & Analysis

As part of the ceremony, the king mortars the joints of the Arch's keystone with a pinkish cement. Genly learns from Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, the Prime Minister or "King's Ear" and one of the most important men in the country, that the mortar is made of ground bones mixed with blood. In the old days, masons used human bones and blood, but they use the blood of animals now, Estraven tells him. (read more)
      Chapter 1, A Parade in Erhenrang
      Chapter 2, The Place Inside the Blizzard
      Chapter 3, The Mad King
      Chapter 4, The Nineteenth Day
      Chapter 5, The Domestication of Hunch
      Chapter 6, One Way in to Orgoreyn
      Chapter 7, The Question of Sex
      Chapter 8, Another Way into Orgoreyn
      Chapter 9, Estraven the Traitor
      Chapter 10, Conversations in Mishnory
      Chapter 11, Soliloquies in Mishnory
      Chapter 12, On Time and Darkness
      Chapter 13, Down on the Farm
      Chapter 14, The Escape
      Chapter 15, To the Ice
      Chapter 16, Between Drummer and Dremegole
      Chapter 17, An Orgota Creation Myth
      Chapter 18, On the Ice
      Chapter 19, Homecoming
      Chapter 20, A Fool's Errand

  Characters

  Themes

  Style

  Historical Context

  Critical Overview

  Criticism

      Critical Essay #1
      Critical Essay #2
      Critical Essay #3

  Media Adaptations

  Topics for Further Study

  Compare & Contrast

  What Do I Read Next?

  For Further Study

  Sources

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