A Citizen of Mondath

reference
authorLe Guin, Ursula K.
editorJakubowski, Maxim; James, Edward
titleA Citizen of Mondath
inThe Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on their Craft and Ideas
pp.73–77
imprintLondon: Palgrave Macmillan UK
year1992
doi10.1007/978-1-349-22143-1_6
isbn978-1-349-22143-1
@incollection{leguinCitizenMondath1992,
  title = {A {{Citizen}} of {{Mondath}}},
  booktitle = {The {{Profession}} of {{Science Fiction}}: {{SF Writers}} on Their {{Craft}} and {{Ideas}}},
  author = {Le Guin, Ursula K.},
  editor = {Jakubowski, Maxim and James, Edward},
  year = 1992,
  pages = {73--77},
  publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan UK},
  address = {London},
  doi = {10.1007/978-1-349-22143-1_6},
  abstract = {One evening when I was about twelve I was looking through the living-room bookshelves for something to read, and pulled out a little Modern Library book, in the old limp leather binding; it had a queer title, A Dreamer’s Tales. I opened it, standing beside the battered green armchair by the lamp; the moment is perfectly vivid to me now. I read:Toldees, Mondath, Arizim, these are the Inner Lands, the lands whose sentinels upon their borders do not behold the sea. Beyond them to the east there lies a desert, for ever untroubled by man: all yellow it is, and spotted with shadows of stones, and Death is in it, like a leopard lying in the sun. To the south they are bounded by magic, to the west by a mountain …},
  isbn = {978-1-349-22143-1},
  langid = {english},
  keywords = {Beautiful Thing,Giant Format,Realistic Kind,Science Fiction,Short Story}
}