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Lavinia by Le Guin, Ursula K. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Lavinia about?

In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice. In The Aeneid, Virgil's hero fights to claim the kings daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner--that she will be the cause of a bitter war--and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Virgil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life. Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers.

Who reads Lavinia?

Author

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780151014248

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.72 / 5 (5,077 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13