Bibliograph

Time bites, views and reviews, Doris Lessing

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Time bites, views and reviews, Doris Lessing

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Time bites

Nature of contents

reviews

Oclc number

60414301

Responsibility statement

Doris Lessing

Sub title

views and reviews

Summary

A collection of literary essays and criticism includes the author's reviews of classic books, commentaries on world politics, and insights into the role of personal experience in the creation of literature

Table Of Contents

Jane Austen -- D.H. Lawrence's 'The fox' -- Carlyle's house: newly discovered pieces by Virginia Woolf -- On Tolstoy -- The man who loved children -- Kalila and Dimna--the fables of Bidpai -- Speech at Vigo on getting the prince of Asturias prize 2002 -- Censorship -- The forgotten soldier, Guy Sajer -- Preface to Ecclesiastes, King James version -- Writing autobiography -- The amazing victorian: a life of George Meredith -- Bulgakov's The fatal eggs -- 'Now you see her, now you don't' -- Stendhal's Memoirs of an egotist -- Lost civilisations of the stone age -- Henry Handel Richardson -- A reissue of The golden notebook -- Anna Kavan -- Philip Glass -- Trail of feathers -- William Philips, who died in 2002 -- Books -- Niccolo Tucci's Before my time -- The wrong way home -- Biography -- About cats -- The Maimie papers -- Olive Schreiner -- When I was young ... -- Preface fro the Writers' and artists' yearbook 2003 -- Simone de Beauvoir -- My room -- A book that changed me -- The autobiography of an unknown Indian, Nirad C. Chaudhuri -- Old -- Professor Martens' departure -- How things were -- A Nazi childhood -- Knowing how to know: a practical philosophy in the Sufi tradition -- The tragedy of Zimbabwe -- East meets west: The elephant in the dark -- 'What novel or novels promoted your own political awakening?' -- The most significant book to come out of Africa -- The Sufis -- The ice palace: Frozen secrets stranded in a waterfall -- Problems, myths and stories -- After 9.11 -- The past is myself, Christabel Bielenberg -- The story of Hai -- Sufi philosophy and poetry -- The way -- A week in Heidelberg -- Dancing with Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto -- For a book trust pamphlet -- The three royal monkeys, Walter de la Mare -- Catlore, Desmond Morris -- The Englishman's handbook -- A.E. Coppard -- A festschrift, Idries Shah -- The nine emotional lives of cats -- Mukiwa: a white boy in Africa -- Clarissa -- Summing up: when Idries Shah died -- Opera

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