Title: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

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Title: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Title Record # 123434
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Date: 1988-00-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English

Note: Written in 1986 (according to the dating of the piece in Dancing at the Edge of the World), this was first published in Women of Vision (1988).

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2020^ⓘTranslated by Matthias Fersterer	German	Die Tragetaschentheorie des Erzählens

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places	1989-01-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Grove Press	0-8021-1105-X	$19.95^?$: US dollar	viii+ 306	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	non-fic	Jo Bonney
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places	1989-06-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Gollancz	0-575-04508-6	£14.95^?£: UK pound	viii+ 306	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	non-fic
Am Anfang war der Beutel: Warum uns Fortschritts-Utopien an den Rand des Abgrunds führten und wie Denken in Rundungen die Grundlage für gutes Leben schafft	2020-03-25	Ursula K. Le Guin	thinkOya	978-3-947296-08-8	€10.00^?€: Euro	95	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	non-fic
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places	date unknown	Ursula K. Le Guin	Perennial Library	0-06-097289-0	$8.95^?$: US dollar	viii+ 306	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	non-fic

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