Left hand of darkness / by Ursula K. Le Guin.

By:

Le Guin, Ursula K, 1929-2018

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Penguin 2010Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 341 p. ; 19 cm.;PbkISBN:

9780441478125

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Science fiction.

DDC classification:

813/.54

LOC classification:

PZ4.L518 Le 1980 PS3562.E42

Contents:

Table of Contents 1. A Parade in Erhenrang 1 2. The Place Inside the Blizzard 22 3. The Mad King 27 4. The Nineteenth Day 43 5. The Domestication of Hunch 47 6. One Way into Orgoreyn 72 7. The Question of Sex 89 8. Another Way into Orgoreyn 98 9. Estraven the Traitor 124 10. Conversations in Mishnory 130 11. Soliloquies in Mishnory 149 12. On Time and Darkness 162 13. Down on the Farm 165 14. The Escape 184 15. To the Ice 200 16. Between Drummer and Dremegole 221 17. An Orgota Creation Myth 237 18. On the Ice 240 19. Homecoming 263 20. A Fool's Errand 285 The Gethenian Calendar andClock 302

Summary: When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune—and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society is more than merely a fascinating creation. The concept of a society existing totally without sexual prejudices is even more relevant today than it was in 1969. This special 25th anniversary edition of The Left Hand of Darkness contains not only the complete, unaltered text of the landmark original but also a thought-provoking new afterword and four new appendixes by Ms. Le Guin. When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue—a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of "male" and "female," he may destroy both his mission and himself.

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Table of Contents
1. A Parade in Erhenrang 1
2. The Place Inside the Blizzard 22
3. The Mad King 27
4. The Nineteenth Day 43
5. The Domestication of Hunch 47
6. One Way into Orgoreyn 72
7. The Question of Sex 89
8. Another Way into Orgoreyn 98
9. Estraven the Traitor 124
10. Conversations in Mishnory 130
11. Soliloquies in Mishnory 149
12. On Time and Darkness 162
13. Down on the Farm 165
14. The Escape 184
15. To the Ice 200
16. Between Drummer and Dremegole 221
17. An Orgota Creation Myth 237
18. On the Ice 240
19. Homecoming 263
20. A Fool's Errand 285
The Gethenian Calendar andClock 302

When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune—and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society is more than merely a fascinating creation. The concept of a society existing totally without sexual prejudices is even more relevant today than it was in 1969. This special 25th anniversary edition of The Left Hand of Darkness contains not only the complete, unaltered text of the landmark original but also a thought-provoking new afterword and four new appendixes by Ms. Le Guin.
When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue—a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of "male" and "female," he may destroy both his mission and himself.

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