Lavinia
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
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About the book
Lavinia is a Locus Award-winning novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 2008, it was Le Guin's last novel. It is written in a first-person, self-conscious style that recounts the life of Lavinia, a minor character in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 70 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 32% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.8 | 8 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 62 | 89% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“In book XII of The Aeneid, Aeneas endeavors to marry Lavinia, a local Latin princess, to achieve power. Sybils tell Lavinias father that she’s got to marry a foreigner, instead of the pre-planned Turnus, which sets off some of the drama in the end of…”
“I like this book so much I read it twice. It is a retelling of the Aeneid from the point of view of Lavinia, the king's daughter whom Aeneas marries when he arrives in Italy. However, unlike Marion Zimmer Bradley's disappointing retellings of famous stories…”
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It has 320 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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