Becoming Dragon: The Transcendence of the Damaged Child in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Release Date: 2003-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

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"She needed to fly, but she could not fly: she was not one of the winged ones" Tehanu, 219

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