Series
Orsinia
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1 novel · 4 novelettes · 10 short stories · 1 collection · 1961–1990
Orsinia is Ursula K. Le Guin's invented Central European country, used as the setting for character-driven historical fiction rather than her more famous science fiction and fantasy: the linked short stories of Orsinian Tales and the novel Malafrena, set among failed 1820s revolutionaries. There's no ongoing plot connecting the pieces; Orsinia functions more as a shared place and history than a series with continuing characters.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Orsinia at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s1
- 1970s14
- 1980s0
- 1990s1
Shape
1 novel · 4 novelettes · 10 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:literary & generalpolitical intrigueeuropetimeless or unspecifiedreflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 88% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book16 of 16 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Diary of the Rosedarkest · most intense
- An die Musikbrightest
- Two Delays on the Northern Linecalmest