Briefing For A Descent Into Hell

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000737867X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( 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.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307777634
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Briefing for a Descent into Hell written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad."

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 177089022X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( 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 80 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.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061967874
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( 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.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307390616
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Briefing for a Descent Into Hell written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061582484
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( 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.

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 9780394568287
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sykaos Papers written by and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1988 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading English historian presents a satirical novel in which the poet, gardener, and space traveller, Oi Paz, arrives to take possession of Earth and falls victim to terrestrial bureaucrats and other fumblers.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007455577
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four-Gated City written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307777677
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Summer Before the Dark written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness: on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 : 9780685042687
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Briefing for a Descent Into Hell written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: