Ursula Le Guin: Short Stories

Ursula Le Guin: Short Stories Study Guide

The following stories are a collection of some of Ursula Le Guin’s most famous short stories and novelettes. They are set in various complex worlds in unknown galaxies; together, these stories explore concepts of sociology, psychology, religion, and politics. The following stories can be found in Ursula Le Guin’s The Unreal and the Real: Outer Space, Inner Lands (Volume 2):

  • “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
  • “Nine Lives”
  • “The Matter of Seggri”
  • “The Rule of Names”
  • “The Wild Girls”
  • “The Silence of the Asonu”
  • The Wife’s Story”

 

The following stories can be found in Ursula Le Guin’s The Wind’s Twelve Quarters:

  • “The Word of Unbinding”
  • “Winter’s King”
  • “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow”
  • “The Day Before the Revolution”

 

“The New Atlantis” is a standalone work that can be accessed at this web address: http://www.e-reading.link/chapter.php/72144/0/Le_Guin_-_The_New_Atlantis.html. All of the page numbers used to reference specific passages or quotations in the summary and analysis sections refer to pages in the aforementioned sources.

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