The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

TitleThe Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Year for Search1974
AuthorsLe Guin, Ursula K[roeber](1929-2018)
Date Published1974
PublisherHarper & Row
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Detailed anarchist eutopia with problems.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Avon, 1975; and with the subtitle as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986 illus. Pat Morrissey and with an "Introduction" (unpaged) by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.]; New York: Harper, 1991. U.K. ed. without the subtitle and with a brief introduction, "Welcome (back) to Anarres" by Richard Morgan (ix-xii). London: Gollancz, 2006; and, with the subtitle, in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 613-919 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and “Notes” (1091-92).  An extract was published as “News from Anarres.” Social Revolution: Paper of the Social Revolution Group (Aberdeen, Scot.), no. 4 ([1977]): 12. 

Info Notes

The subtitle was dropped in some later printings but then generally restored. 

Holding Institutions

MoU-St, PSt

Author Note

Female author (1929-2018)

Full Text

1974 Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber] (1929-2018). The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia. New York: Harper & Row. The subtitle was dropped in some later printings but then generally restored. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Avon, 1975; and with the subtitle as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986 illus. Pat Morrissey and with an “Introduction” (unpaged) by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.]; New York: Harper, 1991. U.K. ed. without the subtitle and with a brief introduction, “Welcome (back) to Anarres” by Richard Morgan (ix-xii). London: Gollancz, 2006; and, with the subtitle, in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 613-919 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and “Notes” (1091-92). . An extract was published as “News from Anarres.” Social Revolution: Paper of the Social Revolution Group (Aberdeen, Scot.), no. 4 ([1977]): 12. MoU-St, PSt

Detailed anarchist eutopia with problems. Female author.