TIME BITES: VIEWS AND REVIEWS

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0060831405 / ISBN 13: 9780060831400

Edité par Harper, 2004

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2004 Lessing, Doris TIME BITES: VIEWS AND REVIEWS NY: HarperCollins, c2004 First printing 376pp Lg 8vo New hardcover copy with d/j. N° de réf. du vendeur 78205

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Titre : TIME BITES: VIEWS AND REVIEWS

Éditeur : Harper

Date d'édition : 2004

Reliure : Couverture rigide

Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette

Edition : Edition originale

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Book by Lessing Doris

Présentation de l'éditeur:

The only collection of literary essays and criticism
by one of the most distinguished writers of our time

Toward the end of his long life, Goethe said that he had only just learned how to read. In this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays -- never before published in book form -- we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has herself learned, over the course of a brilliant career spanning more than half a century, to read the world differently. From imagining the secret sex life of Tolstoy to the secrets of Sufism, from reviews of classic books to commentaries on world politics, these essays span an impressive range of subjects, cultures, periods, and themes, yet they are remarkably consistent in one key regard: Lessing's clear-eyed vision and clearly expressed prose. This is a book about books and writers -- Stendhal and Muriel Spark, Pride and Prejudice, de Beauvoir and Ecclesiastes, Virginia Woolf -- but in its breadth and precision, Time Bites is also a map of the human spirit, of our hopes, fears, and basic needs; and on a more personal level, a map of the wonderful, searching mind of one of our greatest living writers.