The Farthest Shore

The Farthest Shore

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作者: Ursula K. Le Guin （厄休拉·K·勒·奎恩）著

出版社: Simon & Schuster

出版时间: 2001-09

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780689845345

定价: 69.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 259页

正文语种: 英语

丛书: Earthsea Cycle

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>小说

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DARKNESSTHREATENStoovertakeEarthsea.Astheworldanditswizardsarelosingtheirmagic,Ged--powerfulArchmage,wizard,anddragonlord--embarksonasailingjourneywithhighbornyoungprince,Arren.Theytravelfarbeyondtherealmofdeathtodiscoverthecauseoftheseevildisturbancesandtorestoremagictoalanddesperatelythirstyforit.Withmillionsofcopiessold,UrsulaK.LeGuin'sEarthseaCyclehasearnedatreasuredplaceontheshelvesoffantasyloverseverywhere.Complex,innovative,anddeeplymoral,thisquintessentialfantasysequencehasbeencomparedwiththeworkofJ.R.R.TolkienandC.S.Lewis,andhashelpedmakeLeGuinoneofthemostdistinguishedfantasyandsciencefictionwritersofalltime.ShelivesinPortland,Oregon. Speculative fiction, magic realism, "slipstream" fiction -- all these terms could apply to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin. Unfortunately, none was in common use when she started writing in the early 1960s. As a young writer, Le Guin weathered seven years of rejections from editors who praised her novels' elegant prose but were puzzled by their content. At a time when the only literary fiction was realistic fiction, as Le Guin later told an interviewer for The Register-Guard in Portland, Oregon, "There just wasn't a pigeonhole for what I write."

At long last, two of her stories were accepted for publication, one at a literary journal and one at a science-fiction magazine. The literary journal paid her in copies of the journal; the science-fiction magazine paid $30. She told The Register-Guard, "I thought: 'Oooohhh! They'll call what I write science fiction, will they? And they'll pay me for it? Well, here we go!' "

Le Guin continued to write and publish stories, but her breakthrough success came with the publication of The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969. The novel, which tells of a human ambassador's encounters with the gender-changing inhabitants of a distant planet, was unusual for science fiction in that it owed more to anthropology and sociology than to the hard sciences of physics or biology. The book was lauded for its intellectual and psychological depth, as well as for its fascinating premise. "What got to me was the quality of the story-telling," wrote Frank Herbert, the author of Dune. "She's taken the mythology, psychology -- the entire creative surround -- and woven it into a jewel of a story."

Since then, Le Guin has published many novels, several volumes of short stories, and numerous poems, essays, translations, and children's books. She's won an arm's-length list of awards, including both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, and a National Book Award for The Farthest Shore. Over the years, she has created and sustained two fictional universes, populating each with dozens of characters and stories. The first universe, Ekumen, more or less fits into the science-fiction mode, with its aliens and interplanetary travel; the second, Earthsea, is a fantasy world, complete with wizards and dragons. As Margaret Atwood wrote in The New York Review of Books, "Either one would have been sufficient to establish Le Guin's reputation as a mistress of its genre; both together make one suspect that the writer has the benefit of arcane drugs or creative double-jointedness or ambidexterity."
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DARKNESSTHREATENStoovertakeEarthsea.Astheworldanditswizardsarelosingtheirmagic,Ged--powerfulArchmage,wizard,anddragonlord--embarksonasailingjourneywithhighbornyoungprince,Arren.Theytravelfarbeyondtherealmofdeathtodiscoverthecauseoftheseevildisturbancesandtorestoremagictoalanddesperatelythirstyforit.Withmillionsofcopiessold,UrsulaK.LeGuin'sEarthseaCyclehasearnedatreasuredplaceontheshelvesoffantasyloverseverywhere.Complex,innovative,anddeeplymoral,thisquintessentialfantasysequencehasbeencomparedwiththeworkofJ.R.R.TolkienandC.S.Lewis,andhashelpedmakeLeGuinoneofthemostdistinguishedfantasyandsciencefictionwritersofalltime.ShelivesinPortland,Oregon.
作者简介:
Speculative fiction, magic realism, "slipstream" fiction -- all these terms could apply to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin. Unfortunately, none was in common use when she started writing in the early 1960s. As a young writer, Le Guin weathered seven years of rejections from editors who praised her novels' elegant prose but were puzzled by their content. At a time when the only literary fiction was realistic fiction, as Le Guin later told an interviewer for The Register-Guard in Portland, Oregon, "There just wasn't a pigeonhole for what I write."

At long last, two of her stories were accepted for publication, one at a literary journal and one at a science-fiction magazine. The literary journal paid her in copies of the journal; the science-fiction magazine paid $30. She told The Register-Guard, "I thought: 'Oooohhh! They'll call what I write science fiction, will they? And they'll pay me for it? Well, here we go!' "

Le Guin continued to write and publish stories, but her breakthrough success came with the publication of The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969. The novel, which tells of a human ambassador's encounters with the gender-changing inhabitants of a distant planet, was unusual for science fiction in that it owed more to anthropology and sociology than to the hard sciences of physics or biology. The book was lauded for its intellectual and psychological depth, as well as for its fascinating premise. "What got to me was the quality of the story-telling," wrote Frank Herbert, the author of Dune. "She's taken the mythology, psychology -- the entire creative surround -- and woven it into a jewel of a story."

Since then, Le Guin has published many novels, several volumes of short stories, and numerous poems, essays, translations, and children's books. She's won an arm's-length list of awards, including both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, and a National Book Award for The Farthest Shore. Over the years, she has created and sustained two fictional universes, populating each with dozens of characters and stories. The first universe, Ekumen, more or less fits into the science-fiction mode, with its aliens and interplanetary travel; the second, Earthsea, is a fantasy world, complete with wizards and dragons. As Margaret Atwood wrote in The New York Review of Books, "Either one would have been sufficient to establish Le Guin's reputation as a mistress of its genre; both together make one suspect that the writer has the benefit of arcane drugs or creative double-jointedness or ambidexterity."

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