World Classics Book Club

The worms will be discussing The Left Hand of Darkness. Published in 1969, it became immensely popular, and established Le Guin's status as a major author of science fiction.The novel is set in the fictional Hainish universe as part of the Hainish Cycle, a series of novels and short stories by Le Guin, which she introduced in the 1964 short story "The Dowry of Angyar".

This is James pick

The worms will be discussing The Heart of a Dog a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the New Economic Policy, a period during which communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. It is generally interpreted as an allegory of the communist revolution and "the revolution's misguided attempt to radically transform mankind".

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The worms will be discussing The Left Hand of Darkness. Published in 1969, it became immensely popular, and established Le Guin's status as a major author of science fiction.The novel is set in the fictional Hainish universe as part of the Hainish Cycle, a series of novels and short stories by Le Guin, which she introduced in the 1964 short story "The Dowry of Angyar".

This is James pick

The worms will be discussing The Left Hand of Darkness. Published in 1969, it became immensely popular, and established Le Guin's status as a major author of science fiction.The novel is set in the fictional Hainish universe as part of the Hainish Cycle, a series of novels and short stories by Le Guin, which she introduced in the 1964 short story "The Dowry of Angyar".

This is James pick