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The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin Audio CD – March 15, 2017

by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 583 ratings
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Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time-and introduced by the legendary author-in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works as represented in the wonderful The Found and the Lost. This collection is a literary treasure chest that belongs in every home library.
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Ursula K. Le Guin (19292018) was an American author of novels, childrens books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry, literary criticism, and essays. She was widely recognized as one of the greatest science fiction writers in the history of the genre. She won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards on several occasions, as well as the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, and many other honors and prizes. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition (March 15, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Audio CD ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1664459227
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1664459229
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (US /ˈɜːrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography.

She influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell – and notable science fiction and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Le Guin has resided in Portland, Oregon since 1959.

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Customers praise this collection for its nice blend of sci-fi and fantasy elements, with one review highlighting tales from the Hainish and Earthsea universes. The writing is excellent, and customers find the novellas enjoyable to read, with one noting deeper insights upon rereading. Customers describe the collection as brilliant and among Le Guin's best works, with one review mentioning how it incites reflection on one's own humanity. Customers appreciate the character development, with one noting how characters exhibit growth throughout the stories.

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26 customers mention "Story quality"26 positive0 negative

Customers praise the stories in this collection, particularly noting the nice blend of sci-fi and fantasy elements, with one customer highlighting the tales from the Hainish and Earthsea universes.

"...The story is outstanding as the author explores the various tensions and societal developments that can emerge in an isolated population, five..." Read more

"...Le Guin wrote wonderful science fiction, fantasy and mainstream fiction and all genres are represented here...." Read more

"...There is a nice blend of sci-fi and fantasy here, with some from the Hainish world and others from Earthsea...." Read more

"...Some overlap with the short story collection (Buffalo Gals and The matter of Seggri)...." Read more

19 customers mention "Writing quality"19 positive0 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book, describing it as excellent and worth their time, with one customer noting its beautiful social commentary.

"...of thirteen novellas (very close to short stories) is a perfect example of her writing...." Read more

"...Le Guin's great strengths are her beautiful writing that is both poetic and easy to read at the same time, her interest in characters and society..." Read more

"...Good stuff, and very enjoyable." Read more

"This is Le Guin, one of the best writers ever, period. Her works are masterful, and worth your time...." Read more

14 customers mention "Readability"14 positive0 negative

Customers find these novellas wonderful to read, with one noting they offer deeper insights upon rereading.

"...great strengths are her beautiful writing that is both poetic and easy to read at the same time, her interest in characters and society..." Read more

"...Good stuff, and very enjoyable." Read more

"These beautiful and amazing novellas, together with her novels and short stories, constitute a body of work that I hope and expect will someday..." Read more

"...It is wonderful reading, especially if you want some surprises from a well-known author." Read more

11 customers mention "Creativity"11 positive0 negative

Customers praise Le Guin's creativity, describing her works as brilliant, with one customer noting the great range of her writing.

"This is Le Guin, one of the best writers ever, period. Her works are masterful, and worth your time...." Read more

"...compilation of thirteen novellas by the late Ursula K. Le Guin is a very good, if lengthy read...." Read more

"...novellas, together with her novels and short stories, constitute a body of work that I hope and expect will someday guarantee Ursula K. Le Guin's..." Read more

"...But I have to say it anyway--I love her work. I feel like she raised me when I started reading her as a young adult...." Read more

9 customers mention "Collection quality"9 positive0 negative

Customers praise this collection of Le Guin's best works.

"...Slow", "Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight", and "Paradises Lost" were exceptional." Read more

"...novellas when I can get my hands on them... But this is a great collection have around and pick up whenever I need a Le Guin fix...." Read more

"Carefully selected and arranged by the master herself. With some explanatory and biographical notes, but mostly just great stories...." Read more

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5 customers mention "Thought provoking"5 positive0 negative

Customers find the book thought-provoking, with one review noting how it incites reflection on humanity, while another mentions how it challenges our understanding of human nature.

"...are uplifting and some aren't, but they are all complex and thought-provoking." Read more

"...With some explanatory and biographical notes, but mostly just great stories...." Read more

"...The reader is involved with them and understands their motivations...." Read more

"...fast moving plots with fair amount of complexity, challenging our notions of ourselves as human, as gendered, as separate from nature...." Read more

3 customers mention "Character development"3 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book.

"...is both poetic and easy to read at the same time, her interest in characters and society (especially when changing) and these strengths mean she can..." Read more

"...These are all novelas in the sense that the characters exhibit growth, but sometimes contain truths we don't want to know... like the facts that we..." Read more

"...I will say though that here characters are totally believable and alive. The reader is involved with them and understands their motivations...." Read more

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  • Steven M. Anthony
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Outstanding Collection
    Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2016
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    For many years, I avoided Ursula LeGuin, on the mistaken assumption that she was essentially a fantasy author, by virtue of her Wizard of Earthsea novels. It was not until later that I discovered her science fiction work and grew to enjoy it immensely. But LeGuin is not your prototypical science fiction (or it turns out, fantasy) author. She does not write space opera, but instead focuses on character development and human (or alien) interaction. You could label her work anthropological or sociological science fiction, with the fact that aliens, or space travel, or wizards are involved, becoming almost secondary.

    This collection of thirteen novellas (very close to short stories) is a perfect example of her writing. There may have been a couple of duds (most particularly Hernes and to a lesser degree Buffalo Gals), but by and large there is good stuff here.

    Four of the stories involve elements of her Hainish science fiction novels, featuring the planet Weres, where slavery is practiced. In this set of three stories, the reader is taken through a planetary and societal evolution in which slaves are first freed, only to see the women become cultural slaves. Again, only nominally science fiction, to the extent that we are dealing with an alien species in a different time and galaxy.

    Three other stories are set in the author’s Earthsea world, and while I am not a big fan of fantasy, like her science fiction, this fantasy is not heavy handed with extreme magic and fire breathing dragons. There is magic and there are dragons, but they are very subtly exercised or only mentioned in passing. The story is in the characters and their interaction.

    The final story, Paradise Lost, is the best in my opinion. Perhaps the most “science fiction” of the lot, it is set on a multi-generational, multi-ethnic starship as it approaches its destination. The story is outstanding as the author explores the various tensions and societal developments that can emerge in an isolated population, five generations removed from any knowledge or empathy for the civilization that launched their voyage; an excellent ending to a very nice collection.
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  • Andrew Gibbs
    5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful (almost complete) collection
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2017
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    This is a collection of Le Guin's novellas that meshes in nicely with the two volumes of shorter fiction (The real and the unreal) the Le Guin herself selected. Le Guin wrote wonderful science fiction, fantasy and mainstream fiction and all genres are represented here. Her two main series - the science fiction Hainish stories and fantasy Earthsea stories each have multiple selections. There is also the magic realist 'Buffalo girls won't you come out tonight', the stand alone science fiction story Paradises lost, and (probably the least well known story here and the probably the one most likely to have been forgotten but not because it is a poor story) Hernes - the only mainstream story from the Searoad collection.

    Le Guin's great strengths are her beautiful writing that is both poetic and easy to read at the same time, her interest in characters and society (especially when changing) and these strengths mean she can write anything.

    My only quibbles are why two stories published here (The matter of Seggri and Buffalo girls...) are also in The real and unreal volumes. There are also two stories not here that I would have thought were novellas - The word for world is forest and The eye of the heron. The first has been been published as a volume in it's own right so that is probably acceptable but the second is in danger of becoming lost.
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  • Neodoering
    4.0 out of 5 stars LeGuin Turns Out Another Excellent Collection
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2021
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    Here is a collection of LeGuin's novellas from a 25 year period. There is a nice blend of sci-fi and fantasy here, with some from the Hainish world and others from Earthsea. My favorite was "Dragonfly," which is an Earthsea story that goes this way and that before a surprise ending.

    If you've read LeGuin's work before, you'll find her trademark focus on the social sciences and gender roles. Good stuff, and very enjoyable.
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  • Weavrmom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete. And of course a work of stunning genius.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019
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    This is Le Guin, one of the best writers ever, period. Her works are masterful, and worth your time.

    However, Saga Press appears to have been fairly sloppy in some of their approach, in ways that don't make sense. For example, there are odd gaps in what is included in this collection. Only 3 of the 4 intertwined novellas from "Four Ways to Forgiveness" are included, for example, with "Betrayals" left out. So you have what is actually an incomplete novel, and will have to go buy "Forgiveness" in order to get the entire scope of Le Guin's story (with no audio-book on offer, btw). Balancing that is that her later novella placed on the same world, "Old Music and the Slave Women" IS included, as it should be. A very puzzling and frustrating omission, nonetheless.

    I was under the impression that all novellas were included. And what a pure pleasure it would have been to be able to listen the complete audio-book of 'Four Ways to Forgiveness' as part of this collection!

    Also, "Buffalo Gals" and "The Matter of Seggri" were included in both this collection, and the Saga Press Le Guin short story collection, "The Unreal and the Real". This overlap again shows some sloppiness in determining what goes where, and deprives readers/buyers of additional material ('Betrayals' for example?) that could have been included in one or the other.

    Highly recommended, and worth buying of course!

    And what we really need is a multi-volume set of Complete Works, with accompanying audio books. That these aren't available for such an important writer is a crime in my opinion.
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  • Mike Durham
    5.0 out of 5 stars Selections from a variety of Ursula's themes. Excellent Publisher: book well bound.
    Reviewed in Canada on May 15, 2021
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    This book contains selections from Earthsea, Social dislocations due to space travel, and one of the most masterfully written books I've ever read: Hernes.

    The book quality from Saga Press (Simon and Schuster) is above average.
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  • Sephira
    5.0 out of 5 stars She's a Goddess
    Reviewed in Italy on December 30, 2018
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    I love everything Le Guin wrote, and this is no exception. Deep, meaningful, inspiring.
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  • G Talboys
    3.0 out of 5 stars Le Guin poorly served.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2016
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    I have no problem with Le Guin's writing - it is as ever superb. However, the author and the reader are poorly served by this volume. OK, so all the novellas are collected in a single volume, but one story that is widely considered a novella is missing and those that are included are given no context - several of these belong to collections and would be better read with their accompanying texts. Some are part of the Hainish cycle. We would all have been better served if the individual collections to which these belonged had been republished and the remainders collected in a set of volumes with all the short stories. For completists only.
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  • Ms. P Roberts
    3.0 out of 5 stars I think it is much better to read the novellas in the proper places - ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2017
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    I think it is much better to read the novellas in the proper places - ie. as part of series - or within the right context. I love Ursula Leguin, but somehow these didn't grab me like they normally would.
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