title: Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set
author:  Ursula K. Le Guin 
description: &ldquo;Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin:&#160;she is a genre in herself.&rdquo; <b>&mdash;Zadie Smith</b><br><br>&ldquo;Ursula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and&#160;compress it to the density of allegory.&rdquo; <br><b>&mdash;Jonathan Lethem<br></b><br>&ldquo;Belongs in the library of everyone who enjoys the best that science fiction has to offer.&rdquo; <b>&mdash;<i>Locus Magazine</i></b>
zlib_text: **Nonfiction works by Ursula K. Le Guin:**
  
  Essays and Talks
  
  _Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places_
  
   _The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction_
  
   _Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of
  Story_
  
   _The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the
  Imagination_
  
   _Cheek By Jowl_
  
  Poetry
  
  _Wild Angels_
  
   _Walking in Cornwall_ (chapbook)
  
   _Tillai and Tylissos_ (chapbook with Theodora Kroeber)
  
   _Hard Words_
  
   _In the Red Zone_ (chapbook with Henk Pander)
  
   _Wild Oats and Fireweed_
  
   _No Boats_ (chapbook)
  
   _Blue Moon Over Thurman Street_ (with Roger Dorband)
  
   _Going Out With Peacocks_
  
   _Sixty Odd_
  
   _Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country_ (with Roger
  Dorband)
  
   _by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author), Roger Dorband_
  
   _Incredible Good Fortune_
  
   _Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems_
  
   _Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014_
  
  Words Are My Matter
  
  Writings About Life
  
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