Lavinia Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Ursula K. Le Guin
In "The Aeneid," Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice, in this workset in the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was merely a muddy village.
Summary
From a masterful writer of myth and fantasy, a beautiful reimagining of one of the most pivotal characters in Virgil's Aeneid
As the story goes, Virgil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to build 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. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom until her suitors arrive. 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 tells us the story of her life—and her life's greatest love.
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- Title Lavinia
- Author Ursula K. Le Guin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, Boston, Massachusetts
- Date 2009-04-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780156033688 / 0156033682
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Reading level 960
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Legends - Rome
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is."—Margaret Atwood
"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."—Boston Globe
'There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's."—Grace Paley
Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 07/19/2009, Page 20
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