The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia [Signed]
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First edition · Signed · In dust jacket
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First Edition, stated and with full number line to rear. Signed by Ursula Le Guin without inscription at title page. Octavo (22 cm); green cloth-backed boards stamped in gilt; illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; 341pp. Touch of rubbing to boards; very slightly cocked; binding sound and pages unmarked. Mild rubbing to edges of dust jacket; a Near Fine copy. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Le Guin's most lauded novel - winning the Hugo, Locus, Nebula, and Prometheus Awards, her anarchist ambiguous utopia explores political systems, gender roles, and class conflict. Ambitious in content and form, Kessler notes that Le Guin's story "demonstrates the possibility of reconciling contradictory concepts of time - as both linear and circular: the novel completes a circle by ending where it began with the convergence of two linear plot lines." In "Dictionary of Literary Utopias," the authors praise the novel's "complex literary, philosophical, and political construction," noting that "Le Guin challenges the idea of utopia itself and sets the basis for what has been called the 'critical utopia' -- an imperfect utopia in progress that, by questioning the very notion and convention of the genre, revitalizes it." Signed copies becoming increasingly scarce in retail. References: Carol Farley Kessler, "Daring to Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women: 1836-1919." Bost
- Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
- Year: 1974
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
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