Presents a selection of many of the author's best known non-realistic stories, including "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley's Necklace," and "She Unnames Them."

"A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin --- selected by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories. She has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but this is the first short story volume combining a full range of her work."--Provided by publisher.

A collection of short stories selected by the author combined here in one volume for the first time. Part I: Where on Earth focuses on Le Guin's interest in realism and magic realism and includes eighteen of Le Guin's satirical, political, and experimental earthbound stories. Highlights include World Fantasy and Hugo Award winner " Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight," the rarely reprinted satirical short "The Lost Children," Jupiter Award winner "The Diary of the Rose," and the title story of her Pulitzer Prize finalist collection "Unlocking the Air." Part II. Outer Space, Inner lands presents twenty-one of the author's best known non realistic off-Earth stories, including "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley's Necklace," and "She Unnames Them." Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards.