Author: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author. Uniform Title: Works. Selections Title: Ursula K. Le Guin [sound recording] : the complete Orsinia : Malafrena, stories and songs / Ursula K. Le Guin ; Brian Attebery, editor. Published: Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2018 (Books to Life, recording studio) Description: 1 online resource (audio (25 hours, 16 minutes)) Series: Library of America ; 281 Book Number: DB 90731 Dewey No.: 813.54 AFI 23 Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin -- Malafrena. In the provinces ; Exiles ; Choices ; The way to Radiko ; Prisons ; The necessary passion ; Malafrena -- Songs. Folk song from the Montayna province -- Red berries (Montayna province) -- The walls of Rákava (Polana province) -- Stories. Orsinian tales. The fountains -- The barrow -- Ile forest -- Conversations at night -- The road east -- Brothers and sisters -- A week in the country -- An die Musik -- The house -- The lady of Moge -- Imaginary countries -- Other stories. Two delays on the Northern Line -- Unlocking the air -- Chronology -- Notes on texts -- Notes. Availability restricted to persons meeting the eligibility requirements of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Narrated by: Stephen Van Doren. Digital talking book. 3 levels and 67 navigation points. Digitally mastered. A collection of stories and songs from the author's Orsinian cycle, which focuses on a fictional central European country called Orsinia. The stories collected cover several centuries of Orsinia's history. 2016. Male narrator. NLS/BPH Recorded from: New York, NY : The Library of America, 2016. 9781598534931. Full audio with structure. System requirements: NLS authorized digital talking book (dtb) player. Web version requires Internet access, BARD password and NLS authorized digital talking book player. Contact your cooperating library or the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, for more information. 2016 Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. "The inaugural volume of Library of America'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 personal drama set against a history that spans Orsinia's emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth century to its absorption by the Eastern Bloc after World War II. The volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bring the history of Orsinia up to 1989, the poem 'Folksong from the Montayna Province, ' Le Guin's first published work, and two never before published songs in the Orisinian language."--Page 4 of cover. 3 67 DM dbcurrent Subjects: Imaginary places -- Fiction. Downloadable books. Fiction. lcgft Fantasy fiction. lcgft Talking books. lcgft Other authors: Van Doren, Stephen, narrator. Attebery, Brian, 1951- editor. Location: DLC-B DB 90731 NLS/BPH Control No.: 970241 Access: Downloadable talking book. Location: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.90731