简・萨默斯的日记

简・萨默斯的日记 PDF Author: Doris Lessing
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Languages : zh-CN
Pages : 502

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简・萨默斯的日记

简・萨默斯的日记 PDF Author: Doris Lessing
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Languages : zh-CN
Pages : 502

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The Diary of a Good Neighbour

The Diary of a Good Neighbour PDF Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Diaries of Jane Somers

The Diaries of Jane Somers PDF Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394729558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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These two novels show Lessing returning to an earlier narrative style with fresh power.

The Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook PDF Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061582484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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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 Autobiography of Henry VIII

The Autobiography of Henry VIII PDF Author: Margaret George
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429924705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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The Autobiography of Henry VIII is the magnificent historical novel that established Margaret George's career. Evocatively written in the first person as Henry VIII's private journals, the novel was the product of fifteen years of meticulous research and five handwritten drafts. Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute. Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII's story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent comments from his jester and confident, Will Somers. Brilliantly combining history, wit, dramatic narrative, and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, this monumental novel shows us Henry the man more vividly than he has ever been seen before.

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing PDF Author: Gayle Greene
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047208433X
Category : Literature and society
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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An original and compelling appraisal of this important international literary figure

Spiritual Exploration in the Works of Doris Lessing

Spiritual Exploration in the Works of Doris Lessing PDF Author: Phyllis Perrakis
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Though Doris Lessing never explicitly refers to spirituality in her works, she nonetheless explores spiritual issues throughout her texts. This book examines the prominence of spirituality in her writings. The volume provides both close readings of individual works and sweeping surveys of her nearly fifty year career. The contributors employ a variety of theoretical perspectives such as systems theory, feminist studies of the body and of androgyny, postcolonial theories, mythic prophecy, and intersubjective psychology. The contributors reveal that Lessing's presentation of spirituality is neither rigid nor orthodox neither the product of the split between the body and the soul nor anchored in formal systems of the past or present. The volume is divided into three sections. The first, on spirituality manifested in everyday life, examines individual works in which ordinary experiences such as growing old or struggling to adopt to the difficulties of married life comment on spiritual concerns. Included are chapters on The Diaries of Jane Somers and The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five. The second section contains chapters on the formation and dissolution of individual identity for characters at different stages of the life cycle and the parallel changes within societies at different stages of cultural collapse. The third part presents chapters on the larger patterns that inform many of Lessing's works, with attention either to individual texts or to clusters of her writings.

States of Ireland

States of Ireland PDF Author: Conor Cruise O'Brien
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571324304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Written in 1972 in the wake of Bloody Sunday and direct rule, States of Ireland was Conor Cruise O'Brien's searching analysis of contemporary Irish nationalism: part-memoir, part-history, part-polemic. 'If The Great Melody (1992) is O'Brien's major academic work, States of Ireland is the one that will endure as a vital moment in Irish intellectual and political history.' Roy Foster, Standpoint ' States of Ireland [is] a book which influenced a generation. [O'Brien] saw that partition, while scarcely desirable in itself, recognized the reality of two different communities in the island, and that the Dublin state's formal irredentist claim on Northern Ireland was undemocratic and even imperialistic, as well as insincere. The republican ideology to which most Irish people paid lip service was a shirt of Nessus, he later wrote: "it clings to us and burns".' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

If the Old Could--

If the Old Could-- PDF Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Summer Before the Dark

The Summer Before the Dark PDF Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007383576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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The story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.