{"product_id":"the-winds-twelve-quarters-stories-paperback","title":"The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe collection that contains \"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,\" plus sixteen other stories from Le Guin's first decade.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf note: Start with Omelas. Then argue about it with someone for a week.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLe Guin assembled this herself, calling the stories \"the twelve quarters of the wind\" and treating each as a sketch or seed of something larger. Several are: early glimpses of Earthsea, of the Hainish worlds, of ideas she'd spend decades developing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there's Omelas, four pages about a beautiful city and the single condition of its happiness, which has been assigned, argued over, and quoted in ethics classrooms for fifty years. \"The Day Before the Revolution\" won the Nebula and gives Odo, the philosopher behind \u003cem\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003c\/em\u003e, her final afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who know Le Guin only through the novels, this is where the range shows: science fiction, fantasy, parable, and quiet realism, all from a writer who never accepted that those were separate rooms. A striking new 50th anniversary edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ursula K. Le Guin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback, 50th Anniversary Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780060914349\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Science fiction and fantasy short stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67967231721671,"sku":"9780060914349","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/0741\/9335\/files\/9780060914349.jpg?v=1792520339","url":"https:\/\/spineboundbooks.com\/products\/the-winds-twelve-quarters-stories-paperback","provider":"Spinebound Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}