"The Eye of the Heron"
| Title | "The Eye of the Heron" |
| Year for Search | 1978 |
| Authors | Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber](1929-2018) |
| Secondary Authors | Kidd, Virginia(1921-2003) |
| Secondary Title | Millennial Women |
| Pagination | 88-209 |
| Date Published | 1978 |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia and eutopia. An authoritarian dystopia on another world that was originally a penal colony and continues with men ruling and women severely restricted. This is contrasted with a group of later arrivals who came to establish a small, free, egalitarian farming community. The dystopia initially dominates the smaller community, but it manages to free itself with the help of a young woman from the dystopia. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories. By Ursula K. Le Guin and Others. Ed. Virginia Kidd (London: Panther, 1980), 109-251; and as The Eye of the Heron. London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. 122 pp. |
| Holding Institutions | L, PSt |
| Author Note | Female author (1929-2018) |
| Full Text | 1978 Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber] (1929-2018). “The Eye of the Heron.” Millennial Women. Ed. Virginia Kidd (New York: Delacorte Press, 1978), 88-209. Rpt. in The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories. By Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Others. Ed. Virginia Kidd (London: Panther, 1980), 109-251; and as The Eye of the Heron. Dystopia and eutopia. An authoritarian dystopia on another world that was originally a penal colony and continues with men ruling and women severely restricted. This is contrasted with a group of later arrivals who came to establish a small, free, egalitarian farming community. The dystopia initially dominates the smaller community, but it manages to free itself with the help of a young woman from the dystopia. Female author. |
