Сказания Земноморья

by Ursula K. Le Guin, Урсула Ле Гуин

Полюбившийся миллионам читателей цикл "Земноморье" — это грандиозная вселенная, где магия так же естественна и обыденна, как в нашем мире физические явления. По островам огромного океана, населенным людьми и драконами, щедрым на приключения и испытания, хранящим великое множество заветных тайн, странствуют удивительные герои, и нити их судеб сплетаются в роскошное полотно, имя которому — эпическое фэнтези. "Земноморье" принесло его автору мировую славу, и сейчас оно стоит в одном ряду с такими шедеврами фэнтези, как "Властелин колец" Дж. Р. Р. Толкина и "Нарния" К. С. Льюиса. В этот сборник вошли заключительные произведения цикла.

1095 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 13, 2021

About the author

Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. She lived in Portland, Oregon.

She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mixing traits extracted from her profound knowledge of anthropology acquired from growing up with her father, the famous anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. The Hainish Cycle reflects the anthropologist's experience of immersing themselves in new strange cultures since most of their main characters and narrators (Le Guin favoured the first-person narration) are envoys from a humanitarian organization, the Ekumen, sent to investigate or ally themselves with the people of a different world and learn their ways.