The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, named after a line from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad and first published by Harper & Row in 1975. Described by Le Guin as a retrospective, it collects 17 previously published stories, …
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The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, named after a line from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad and first published by Harper & Row in 1975. Described by Le Guin as a retrospective, it collects 17 previously published stories, four of which were the germ of novels she was to write later: "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names" gave Le Guin the place that was to become Earthsea; "Semley's Necklace" was first published as "Dowry of the Angyar" in 1964 and then as the Prologue of the novel Rocannon's World in 1966; "Winter's King" is about the inhabitants of the planet Winter, as is Le Guin's later novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Most of the other stories are also connected to Le Guin's novels. The story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" won the Hugo Award in 1974, while "The Day Before the Revolution" won the Locus and Nebula Awards in 1975.
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- 50126
Editions of The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose (S.F. Masterworks)
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The wind's twelve quarters : short stories
English language
Published May 16, 1981
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-20132-1Copied ISBN!
Die zwölf Striche der Windrose
taschenbuch, 333 pages
German language
Published Jan. 1, 1983 by Heyne Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-453-30964-7Copied ISBN!
The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose
English language
Published March 10, 2001 by GOLLANCZ.
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- 978-1-4732-0576-5Copied ISBN!
Wind's Twelve Quarters
English language
Published 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-247103-1Copied ISBN!
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Hardcover, 315 pages
Published June 5, 1991 by Borgo Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8095-9050-6Copied ISBN!
Thew ind's twelve quarters
303 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 1976 by Gollancz.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-575-02070-2Copied ISBN!
Las Doce Morada's Del Viento/the Wind's Twelve Quarters
Paperback
Spanish language
Published Sept. 5, 1985 by Edhasa.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-350-2068-8Copied ISBN!
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
library binding
Published April 9, 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4395-6236-9Copied ISBN!
Die zwölf Striche derWindrose
German language
Published Sept. 5, 1980 by Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-485-00391-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 8188327
Die zwölf Striche der Windrose
375 pages
German language
Published Sept. 5, 1980 by Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung.
Die zwölf Striche der Windrose
375 pages
German language
Published Sept. 5, 1980 by Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung.
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