Orsinia (Deluxe Edition): Malafrena, Stories, and Songs
Nov 2026 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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An epic collection featuring the “masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Malafrena and continuing stories about the imaginary Central European country Orsinia, from one of our greatest writers of speculative fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Among the less-traveled mountains and plains of Central Europe, a little east of Austria perhaps and north of Slovenia, lies the old kingdom of Orsinia. A land of forests and quiet farmlands and towns, with its capital city Krasnoy on the broad Molsen River, Orsinia has always found itself, like all the countries of Europe, subject to forces beyond its borders. Yet, cast as they are in the shadow of tyrannies both Western and Eastern, the lives and dreams of its free people are no less important than the great arguments of Europe’s emperors and dictators.
Here then are those lives: in tales of romance and bloodlust, hope and fear, freedom and tyranny, passion and despair. Tales of love, life, death, and—amidst the great 19th-century rise of liberalism and nationalism—a tale of revolution against the might of the Hapsburg Empire.
This is Orsinia and these are her stories.
Among the less-traveled mountains and plains of Central Europe, a little east of Austria perhaps and north of Slovenia, lies the old kingdom of Orsinia. A land of forests and quiet farmlands and towns, with its capital city Krasnoy on the broad Molsen River, Orsinia has always found itself, like all the countries of Europe, subject to forces beyond its borders. Yet, cast as they are in the shadow of tyrannies both Western and Eastern, the lives and dreams of its free people are no less important than the great arguments of Europe’s emperors and dictators.
Here then are those lives: in tales of romance and bloodlust, hope and fear, freedom and tyranny, passion and despair. Tales of love, life, death, and—amidst the great 19th-century rise of liberalism and nationalism—a tale of revolution against the might of the Hapsburg Empire.
This is Orsinia and these are her stories.
An epic collection featuring the “masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Malafrena and continuing stories about the imaginary Central European country Orsinia, from one of our greatest writers of speculative fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Among the less-traveled mountains and plains of Centr...
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About the author
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards; a Newbery Honor; and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America. Le Guin was also the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. She received lifetime achievement awards from the World Fantasy Convention, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Library of Congress Living Legend Award. Her website is UrsulaKLeGuin.com.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, T...
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