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Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061874795
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the past 100 years, a shrewd visionary. . . . Her new, short, haunting novel . . . succors us with . . . unforgettable visual images. We shiver and marvel as we lose ourselves in time.”— The Times (London) In her visionary novel Mara and Dann, Doris Lessing introduced a brother and sister battling through a future landscape defined by extreme climates in the north and south. In this new novel the odyssey continues. Dann is grown up, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization, traveling with his friend, a snow dog who saves him from the depths of despair. Here, too, are Mara’s daughter and Griot with the green eyes, an abandoned child-soldier who discovers the meaning of love and the ability to sing stories. Like its predecessor, this brilliant novel from one of our greatest living writers explains as much about our world as it does about the future we may be heading toward.

The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781405612456
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earth's climate has changed - it is colder than ever before - and Dann is now a general, and the man to whom everyone looks for guidance and leadership. Lessing's new novel charts his adventures across the frozen wastes of the north.

Ben, In the World

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061967874
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Ben, In the World written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength. Ben's half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of the outsider has hardly ever before in fiction been portrayed with such raw power and righteous anger. Few, if any, living writers can have explored so many forbidding fictional worlds with such passion and conviction. — Kirkus Reviews The poignant and tragic sequel to Doris Lessing's bestselling novel, THE FIFTH CHILD. At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a reason for his being. How the world receives him, and, he fares in it will horrify and captivate until the novel's dramatic finale.

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 177089022X
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Prisons We Choose to Live Inside written by Doris Lessing and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.

The Fifth Child

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307777642
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Child written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside—until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he grows older and more terrifying, Harriet finds she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four older children are afraid of him. Understanding that he will never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their instincts as parents and their shocked reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose existence shatters their belief in a benign world.

The Habit of Loving

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Fawcett Books
ISBN 13 : 9780445083905
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book The Habit of Loving written by Doris Lessing and published by Fawcett Books. This book was released on 1966 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of seventeen stories explores different types of love and various aspects of the human need for companionship and affection

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Author : Philip Glass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 written by Philip Glass and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Good Terrorist

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780007498789
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Good Terrorist written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful contemporary novel about a group of would-be terrorists in London that Susan Brownmiller in Newsday called "a bone-tingling narrative that should stand as the crowning achievement of Lessing's distinguished career".

A Man and Two Women

Author : Doris May Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Man and Two Women written by Doris May Lessing and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Grandmothers

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061847666
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Grandmothers written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing’s unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.

Tangled Vines, Island Crimes

Author : Isabella Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781648019494
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Tangled Vines, Island Crimes written by Isabella Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabella Stewart's Tangled Vines, Island Crimes is set in the quintessential seaport town of Edgartown on the island of Martha's Vineyard, seven miles off the coast of Cape Cod. In the summer, 120 thousand descend on the island, including many notable celebrities: Jackie Onassis, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton. But come September, the island shrinks to its year-round population of seventeen thousand hardy souls...some of whom abound in criminal activities. Her first book in a series features Maria, the island's leading real estate broker, who is determined at all costs to get accepted into the prestigious Yacht Club despite her Portuguese working-class background; and Rick, an attorney who takes advantage of Maria's greed and makes himself all-knowing. But when the pressures of her new marriage to a handsome off-islander make it more-than-necessary to keep her real estate sales flowing in, will it also make living life on the island - and keeping him interested enough in her increasing wealth and lifestyle- impossible? This is not a beach novel taking place in the soft summer winds; it is the flip side taking place in the off-season when the wild vines take hold of vacant summer properties and weaken their foundations, climb and strangle trees, and weave a cloth of deception that is stronger than twine. Written by someone who lives year-round in this place that only is accessed by boat or airplane, Stewart's accounts of island corruption and crimes are intense and ... truer than fiction ... that lead to death. She gives an insight into the dichotomy between the wealthy summer residents and the domestic- and working-class lives of islanders-the good, the bad, and the (almost) unbelievable.

Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Author : Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1137486503
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction written by Susan Watkins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.

Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000376354
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships. Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, as they collectively probe humanity’s greatest existential threats. Contributors from five continents provide compelling analyses of far future dystopias on Earth that are all too easy to imagine becoming reality if humankind’s current trajectory continues, as well as provocative insights into science fiction utopias set on idyllic planets orbiting distant stars, which offer liberatory alternatives that might someday be actualized in the real world. By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitable world.

The Golden Notebook

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061582484
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Notebook written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0006547206
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1994 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five' is the second volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction. 'The Marriages' is set in the indeterminate lands of the Zones, strange realms which encircle the Earth. Zone Three, a peaceful, contented, matriarchal paradise, is ruled by the gentle Queen Al . Ith.; the neighbouring Zone Four is a land given to war and chaos, controlled by the brutal warrior-king, Ben-Ata. Their marriage, a melding of the extreme male and female principles, threatens to destabilise the entire galactic empire. Many other Doris Lessing books are available in Flamingo, including the other four titles in the 'Canopus' series. 'Doris Lessing's preoccupation with the balance and dominance and need between the sexes has here extraordinary scope. A visionary fable full of strong, romantic ideas.' GAY FIRTH, 'The Times' 'Doris Lessing has chosen the language of fairy tales in order to keep the memory of ordinary earthlings' sexual love, its antagonisms, its moments of bliss. Her touch is glancing, amused, feline throughout.' MARINA WARNER, 'Sunday Times' ''The Marriages' is a feminist allegory of the relations between the sexes, full of the constant charm of the unexpected and the discoveries of an imagination surrendering itself to the momentum of its own narrative and visual invention.' ROBERT TOWERS, 'New York Times'

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000737867X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Briefing for a Descent Into Hell written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Sirian Experiments

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006547211
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Sirian Experiments written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Sirian Experiments' is the third volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction. 'The Sirian Experiments' chronicles the origins of our planet, as the three galactic empires fight for control of the human race. The novel charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, Ambien II, a 'dry, dutiful, efficient' female Sirian administrator. Witnessing the wanton colonization of land and people, Ambien begins to question her involvement in such insidious experimentati- on, her faith in the possibility of human progress itself growing weaker every day.