The Left Hand of Darkness

by LeGuin, Ursula K.

• ISBN13: 9780441478125
• ISBN10: 0441478123
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-03-15
• Publisher: Ace

Summary

Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.

Author Biography

Ursula K. Le Guin lives in Portland, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Parade in Erhenrang	1	(21)
The Place Inside the Blizzard	22	(5)
The Mad King	27	(16)
The Nineteenth Day	43	(4)
The Domestication of Hunch	47	(25)
One Way into Orgoreyn	72	(17)
The Question of Sex	89	(9)
Another Way into Orgoreyn	98	(26)
Estraven the Traitor	124	(6)
Conversations in Mishnory	130	(19)
Soliloquies in Mishnory	149	(13)
On Time and Darkness	162	(3)
Down on the Farm	165	(19)
The Escape	184	(16)
To the Ice	200	(21)
Between Drumner and Dremegole	221	(16)
An Orgota Creation Myth	237	(3)
On the Ice	240	(23)
Homecoming	263	(22)
A Fool's Errand	285	(17)
The Gethenian Calendar and Clock	302