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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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In 1872, Dostoyevsky published his most intensely political novel, a work long known in English as The Possessed (although more recently dubbed The Devils or Demons). A century later, Ursula K. Le Guin unleashed her own political novel, embedded in a sci-fi framework, The Dispossessed. The Russian novel looks at the ruminations and actions of conspirato…

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