Ursula K. Le Guin

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Lao Tzu - Ursula K. Le Guin - Tao Te Ching

No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le Guin, best known for thought-provoking science fiction novels that have helped to transform the genre, has studied the Tao Te Ching for more than forty years. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with Chinese scholars to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the poetic beauty of the work. Avoiding scholarly interpretations and esoteric Taoist insights, she has revealed the Tao Te Ching 's immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, in a way that shows better than ever before why it has been so much loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin's own personal commentary and notes on the text. This new version is sure to be welcomed by the many readers of the Tao Te Ching as well as those coming to the text for the first time. https://www.amazon.com/Lao-Tzu-Ching-About-Power/dp/1570623953

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„We read books to find out who we are.

What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.“ Ursula K. LeGuin

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“The opposite of spare time is, I guess, occupied time. In my case I still don’t know what spare time is because all my time is occupied. It always has been and it is now. It’s occupied by living.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

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“Activist anarchists always hope I might be an activist, but I think they realize that I would be a lousy one, and let me go back to writing what I write.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

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"I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing but a growing up: > than an adult is not a dead child, but a child who has survived. > I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in > the child, and that if these faculties are encouraged in youth they > will act wisely and well in the adult, but if they are repressed and > denied in the child they will stunt and cripple the adult personality. >

"[...] Normal children do not confuse reality and fantasy - they > confuse them much less often than we adults do [as a certain great > fantasist pointed out in a story called "The Emperor's New Clothes"). > Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also > know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true > books. All too often it's more than Mummy and Daddy know; for, in > denying their childhood, the adults have denied half their knowledge, > and all are left with the sad, sterile little fact: "unicorns aren't > real". And that fact is one that never got anyone anywhere [except in > the story "The Unicorn in the Garden", by another great fantasist, in > which it is shown that a devotion to the unreality of unicorns may get > you straight into the loony bin]. It is by such statements as "once > upon a time there was a dragon", or "in a hole in the ground there > lived a hobbit" - it is by such beautiful non-acts that we fantastic > human beings may arrive, in our peculiar fashion, at truth." >

URSULA K. LE GUIN - "Why Americans Are Afraid of Dragons?" in the > essay collection "The Language of the Night" (GP Putnams, 1979).

“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”

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The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin== isbn=1857230744

That indelible relationship between suffering and life is what Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929–January 22, 2018) explores throughout The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (public library) — the superb 1974 novel, part science fiction and part philosophy, that gave us Le Guin’s insight into time, loyalty, and the root of human responsibility.

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Ursula Le Guin, who was praised as bringing "literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy," was born on this day in 1929. Famous for such works as The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, and the Earthsea series, Le Guin, who died in 2018 at the age of 88, was known for tackling complex and often challenging social issues in her work and frequently exploring themes of gender, race, and identity. She believed that writing that drew readers into the "inner lands" of the imagination could be a moral force, observing that "if you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little kids can’t do it; babies are morally monsters — completely greedy. Their imagination has to be trained into foresight and empathy.” For readers who would like to delve into Ursula Le Guin's most famous works, we highly recommend the "Earthsea" series (https://amzn.to/3PzvqLB), "The Dispossessed" (http://amzn.to/2Du0VRL), "The Left Hand of Darkness (http://amzn.to/2GaavLx), and "The Lathe Of Heaven" (http://amzn.to/2GcdrqM) Three volumes of her lesser-known work have also been released: "The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin" (http://amzn.to/2G7iMjg), "The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin" (http://amzn.to/2rzm4IQ); and "The Complete Orsinia", which collects her realistic fiction (http://amzn.to/2eplpRa) For teen readers interested in exploring her work, in her novel "Voices", Le Guin creates a world where books are forbidden and a young woman must decide what her role will be in a rebellion fomenting against the oppressive occupiers of her city -- recommended for ages 12 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/voices For books to help cultivate children's empathy for others, you can find many reading recommendations in our blog post "25 Children's Books That Teach Kids to Be Kind," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=19359 And, for many girl-empowering fantasy stories for children and teens, visit our "Fantasy & Science Fiction" book section at http://amgrl.co/2wfKIOZ

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