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By the sacred spring in the forests near her home, Lavinia, young princess of Latium, encounters a poet - a soothsayer - who foretells her future: to marry a Trojan hero named Aeneas and found a great kongdom and a mighty dynasty. Lavinia's mother has other plans - to marry her daughter off to an ambitious neighbouring king - and her father is plagued with indecision. But when a fleet of foreign warships sails into the mouth of the river Tiber, Lavinia knows her destiny is calling.
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Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- Lavinia
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Publisher
- Weidenfield and Nicolson
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0753827840
- ISBN13
- 9780753827840
- Category
- World prose, Women of fall
- Description
- By the sacred spring in the forests near her home, Lavinia, young princess of Latium, encounters a poet - a soothsayer - who foretells her future: to marry a Trojan hero named Aeneas and found a great kongdom and a mighty dynasty. Lavinia's mother has other plans - to marry her daughter off to an ambitious neighbouring king - and her father is plagued with indecision. But when a fleet of foreign warships sails into the mouth of the river Tiber, Lavinia knows her destiny is calling.