SHIKASTA - Canopus in Argos: Archives Re: Colonised Planet 5

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394507320 / ISBN 13: 9780394507323

Edité par Knopf, 1979

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First American edition. A fine fresh copy in like jacket, NOT remainder marked as often found. Free of any former owner marking of any kind.

N° de réf. du vendeur 23-2 WCT fiction LESSING

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: SHIKASTA - Canopus in Argos: Archives Re: Colonised Planet 5
• Éditeur: Knopf
• Date de parution: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0394507320
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780394507323
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

Book by Lessing Doris

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessing calls collectively Canopus in Argos: Archives. Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, this purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta–clearly the planet Earth–to be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives. For eons, galactic empires have struggled against one another, and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds.Johar, an emissary from Canopus and the primary contributor to the archives, visits Shikasta over the millennia from the time of the giants and the biblical great flood up to the present. With every visit he tries to distract Shikastans from the evil influences of the planet Shammat but notes with dismay the ever-growing chaos and destruction of Shikasta as its people hurl themselves towards World War III and annihilation.