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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 and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.  

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of stories. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance-art pieces, and most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading. 

Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator. 

First published in French in 1841 as Ursule Mirouët, Ursula is a captivating part of Balzac’s monumental series, The Human Comedy. The story revolves around a wealthy, elderly doctor who has raised his goddaughter, the daughter of his deceased brother-in-law, an illegitimate man himself. As the doctor retires to a provincial town filled with relatives vying for a share of his fortune, the tension rises. These relatives, driven by greed and entitlement under the stringent French inheritance laws of the time, represent a stark contrast to the beloved goddaughter, who has no legal claim to his...

From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of these great men, love is a ‘delicious poison’ (William Congreve); for others, ‘a nice soft wife on...

Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space Crone brings together Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender for the first time, offering new insights into her imaginative, multispecies feminist consciousness: from its roots in deep ecology and philosophies of non-violence to her self-education about racism and her writing on motherhood and ageing.

Listen to 'John Buchan Unbound', hosted by Buchan's granddaughter and biographer, Ursula Buchan, and historian Michael Redley. Explore the depths of John Buchan's world through the eyes of his characters and the lens of history. Listen in for a unique journey into a literary icon's legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"So many books are written for beginners on the appreciation of music that I can be thankful that advancing age makes it unnecessary for me to read them, and when I do have to look into any of them I wonder whether the young people of to-day derive as much pleasure from them as I did at eighteen from reading Sir John Hawkins’ History of Music. But I have read this book of Mrs. Creighton’s with much enjoyment, for she is a musician who enjoys music herself and has the art of conveying that enjoyment to others. She has had enough experience as a teacher of the pianoforte to understand the ...

“The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books” (The Wall Street Journal) in this Edgar Award–nominated celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews—featuring family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more. Best known for...

Escrito há 50 anos, A mão esquerda da escuridão é um marco na literatura de fantasia e ficção científica, vencedor do Hugo e do Nebula, mantendo-se até hoje como uma voz precursora e potente nas discussões da humanidade. Enviado em uma missão intergaláctica, Genly Ai, um humano, tem como missão persuadir os governantes do planeta Gethen a se unirem a uma comunidade universal. Entretanto, Genly, mesmo depois de anos de estudo, percebe-se despreparado para a situação que lhe aguardava. Ao entrar em contato com uma cultura complexa, rica, quase medieval e com outra abordagem na ...

BÜCHER FEIERN ist der Podcast für alle, die lesen und schreiben lieben! Die an keiner Buchhandlung vorbeikommen, ohne hineinzugehen und am liebsten in einer übernachten möchten. Und natürlich auch für alle, die das Leben feiern. Mit all seinen Geschichten. Weg von Sternebewertungen, hin zu Büchern, die im passenden Moment begleiten. In jeder Episode stellt die Autorin Ursula Kollritsch zusammen mit einem Gast und Büchermenschen besondere Buchtitel vor: Neuerscheinungen, Must-Reads, All-time-Favorites und Herzenbücher. Darunter sind - wie bei einer Hochzeit - auch geliehene und blaue. ...

BULAQ is a book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (in Amman, Jordan) and M Lynx Qualey (in Rabat, Morocco). It focuses on Arabic literature in translation and is named after the first printing press established in Egypt in 1820. Produced by Sowt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.