Orsinian Tales
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Orsinian_Tales".

Orsinian Tales is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin.

The setting is a fictional Central European country, at different periods in time ranging from the Middle Ages to the 1960s.

The cycle was extended by the Borges-like story "Two Delays on the Northern Line" (1979), anthologised in The Compass Rose (1982); and "Unlocking the Air" (1990), anthologised in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996), which is set at the time of the downfall of Communism in Orsinia – and the rest of Eastern Europe – in the winter of 1989. In addition, Le Guin's novel Malafrena is set in the Orsinia of the 1820s.

Contents

• "The Fountains"
• "The Barrow" (1976, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1976)
• "Ile Forest"
• "Conversations At Night"
• "The Road East"
• "Brothers and Sisters" (1976, The Little Magazine, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2)
• "A Week in the Country" (1976, The Little Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 4)
• "An die Musik" (1961, The Western Humanities Review, Vol XV, No. 3)
• "The House"
• "The Lady of Moge"
• "Imaginary Countries" (1973, The Harvard Advocate)