β Ursula K Le Guin
π Fiction
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2014;2008
π Harcourt
π English
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Lavinia
β Scribed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0156034581
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β¦ Synopsis
In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice
In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.
Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner--that she will be the cause of a bitter war--and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life.
Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous...
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In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice In *The Aeneid,* Vergils hero fights to claim the kings daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in
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β Ursula K. Le Guin
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Lavinia crece sin conocer otra cosa que la paz y la libertad hasta la llegada de sus pretendientes. Su madre exige que contraiga matrimonio con el apuesto y ambicioso Turno. Pero los augurios y las profecΓas de los manantiales sagrados afirman que deberΓ‘ casarse con un extranjero, que provocarΓ‘ una
β Ursula K. Le Guin
π Fiction
π
2008
π ePubLibre
π Spanish
β 272 KB
π 1 views
Lavinia crece sin conocer otra cosa que la paz y la libertad hasta la llegada de sus pretendientes. Su madre exige que contraiga matrimonio con el apuesto y ambicioso Turno. Pero los augurios y las profecΓas de los manantiales sagrados afirman que deberΓ‘ casarse con un extranjero, que provocarΓ‘ una
β Ursula K. Le Guin
π Fiction
π
2008
π Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
π English
β 309 KB
{ May 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 279 pages Published 2008 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2009) In a richly imagined, beautiful new n