Ursula K. Le Guin
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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
- Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume—Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s remarkable career....
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
- Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume—Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alyssa Bresnahan
- Series: The Hainish Cycle, Book 1-3
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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The Dispossessed
- A Novel
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred....
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One of my favorite novels of all time
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The Dispossessed
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Series: The Hainish Cycle, Book 5
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-14-10
- Language: English
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Tales from Earthsea
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by Ursula K. Le Guin's must-listen Earthsea Cycle.
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The Rest is Silence
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Tales from Earthsea
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Series: The Earthsea Quartet, Book 5
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 08-22-16
- Language: English
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The Complete Earthsea Series & The Left Hand of Darkness
- 3 BBC Radio Full Cast Dramatisations
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: full cast, Toby Jones, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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The dazzling BBC Radio adaptations of Ursula K. Le Guin's famous fantasy saga and her groundbreaking science fiction masterpiece - plus bonus material....
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Too much fluff and interruptions.
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The Complete Earthsea Series & The Left Hand of Darkness
- 3 BBC Radio Full Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: full cast, Toby Jones, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Lesley Sharp, Adjoa Andoh, Noma Dumezweni, Robert Glenister, James McArdle, Sam Dale
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 12-09-21
- Language: English
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A Wizard of Earthsea
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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When Sparrowhawk casts a spell that saves his village from destruction, Ogion, the Mage of Re Albi, encourages the boy to apprentice himself in the art of wizardry....
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A little gem, excellently narrated.
- By Marjorie on 05-14-12
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A Wizard of Earthsea
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Series: The Earthsea Quartet, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 04-10-09
- Language: English
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The Left Hand of Darkness
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender....
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Almost 50 and still amazing
- By kwdayboise (Kim Day) on 06-07-17
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The Left Hand of Darkness
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Series: The Hainish Cycle, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-28-16
- Language: English
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The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories....
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chapter names
- By Evan Goldsborough on 01-18-20
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The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
- Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-22-14
- Language: English
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The Farthest Shore
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Return to Earthsea with Ged, the brash young wizard who survived the enchanted labyrinth of The Tombs of Atuan....
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Best. Fantasy. Series. Ever.
- By Nothing really matters on 07-22-16
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The Farthest Shore
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Series: The Earthsea Quartet, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-29-10
- Language: English
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Words Are My Matter
- Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer’s Week
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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A must-listen collection, Words Are My Matter is a manual for investigating the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction - and, through the lens of deep considerations of contemporary writing, a way of exploring the world we are all living in....
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One of Le Guin's best collections
- By Cameron on 05-11-19
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Words Are My Matter
- Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer’s Week
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 02-20-18
- Language: English
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The Lathe of Heaven
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food....
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A story I’ve experienced 4 times
- By Bob Conrod on 08-21-23
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The Lathe of Heaven
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-30-20
- Language: English
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Powers
- Annals of the Western Shore, Book 3
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Young Gavie sometimes "remembers" the future. But as a slave living among those who feel threatened by the powers of the Marsh people....
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Just Right
- By Alyssa B. Goss on 02-07-15
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Powers
- Annals of the Western Shore, Book 3
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
- Series: Annals of the Western Shore, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-27-08
- Language: English
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization....
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The Left Hand of Darkness
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Series: The Hainish Cycle, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-18-24
- Language: English
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The Found and the Lost
- The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Jefferson Mays
- Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
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Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume....
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You gotta be kidding me.
- By Spam on 07-02-19
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The Found and the Lost
- The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Jefferson Mays
- Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 11-04-16
- Language: English
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Catwings
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Length: 24 mins
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Le Guin wrote this highly acclaimed novel about a very special litter of kittens. Mrs. Jane Tabby has always longed toget away from the cramped alleys of the city....
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A Childhood Favorite
- By CSP on 11-14-17
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Catwings
- Narrated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Series: Catwings, Book 1
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 12-01-11
- Language: English
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Catwings Return
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Length: 35 mins
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In the second Catwings story, the kittens decide to visit their mother in the city....
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The Second in the Catwings Adventures
- By Lily C. Baker on 04-30-12
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Catwings Return
- Narrated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Series: Catwings, Book 2
- Length: 35 mins
- Release date: 03-10-08
- Language: English
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Tehanu
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book Four
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan - she an isolated young priestess, he a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow....
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Delivers on Promise of Tenar and the Tombs
- By JA on 08-30-17
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Tehanu
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book Four
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Series: The Earthsea Quartet, Book 4
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-31-16
- Language: English
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Dancing at the Edge of the World
- Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across....
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Not my favorite Le Guin collection, but...
- By Cameron on 05-11-19
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Dancing at the Edge of the World
- Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 01-22-19
- Language: English
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The Beginning Place
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Tembreabrezi is like Eden - a beginning place. There, Hugh and Irena assume they have merely discovered an escape from the dull monotony, even the terrors of their regular lives. But Tembreabrezi has a secret....
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Turned off...
- By Amazon Customer on 05-11-20
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The Beginning Place
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-11-18
- Language: English
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The Telling
- Hainish Cycle, Book 8
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness....
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The Telling
- Hainish Cycle, Book 8
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Series: The Hainish Cycle, Book 8
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-05-24
- Language: English
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Gifts
- Annals of the Western Shore, Book 1
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Jim Colby
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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In the Uplands, people have magical and fearsome gifts....
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Book 3 won the 2008 Nebula Award
- By K. Danielson on 11-10-11
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Gifts
- Annals of the Western Shore, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jim Colby
- Series: Annals of the Western Shore, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-19-06
- Language: English
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