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The wind's twelve quarters : short stories / by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 246 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1975]
- Summary:
- Seventeen short stories reveal the author's sustained concern with human relationships and values in past and future worlds of fantasy, speculation, and unearthly provision, in a new edition of the author's first collection of short stories.
- Contents:
- Semley's necklace.
- April in Paris.
- The masters.
- Darkness box.
- The word of unbinding.
- The rule of names.
- Winter's king.
- The good trip.
- Nine lives.
- Things.
- A trip to the head.
- Vaster than empires and more slow.
- The stars below.
- The field of vision.
- Direction of the road.
- The ones who walk away from omelas.
- The day before the revolution.
- Notes:
- Jacket design by Patricia Voehl.
- First printing has gutter code "G07" on page 245, indicates a printing in February 1976.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Has gutter code.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 189061
- OCLC:
- 5144457
- Publisher Number:
- 01901 Science Fiction Book Club
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