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The Quiet Hour · Calloway
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Ursula K. Le Guin
2016 · The Library of America · 592 pages
"The inaugural volume of Library of America{u2019}s Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the central european country of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. The stories originally published in Orsinian Tales (1976) offer brilliantly rendered episodes of perso…
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A character-driven with strong prose, melancholic and immersive read.
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