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MALAFRENA
by Le Guin, Ursula K
- Used
- first
- Condition
- A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small closed tear and crease to lower front panel. (29104)
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. First edition. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small closed tear and crease to lower front panel. (29104). Octavo, cloth-backed boards. "Malafrena asks something that cannot have occurred to very many of us: what it might have been like to live in a small, quiet principality of the Habsburg Empire during the great 19th-century upwellings of liberalism and nationalism. The country in question is the imaginary "Orsinia," whose history and geography Le Guin has been sketching to herself for a good many years. (See the short-story collection Orsinian Tales, 1976)....Malafrena is Le Guin's masterpiece to date—a provocative adventure firmly founded on an unmodish and undeviating nobility of style, of mind, and above all of responsible imagination." - Kirkus review, 1 October, 1979.
Synopsis
Malafrena is a novel published in 1979 by Ursula K. Le Guin. Although she is best known for science fiction and fantasy, the only unusual element of this novel is that it takes place in the imaginary Central European country of Orsinia, which is also the setting of her collection Orsinian Tales. The story takes place from 1825 to 1830, when Orsinia is ruled by the Austrian Empire. The hero is Itale Sorde, the son of the owner of an estate on a lake called Malafrena in a valley of the same name.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29104
- Title
- MALAFRENA
- Author
- Le Guin, Ursula K
- Book Condition
- Used - A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small closed tear and crease to lower front panel. (29104)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1979]
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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