Shikasta

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780006547198
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shikasta written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780394749778
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shikasta written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1981-08-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series is presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, and 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.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586053102
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canopus in Argos written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006547211
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sirian Experiments written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Sirian Experiments' is the third volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction. 'The Sirian Experiments' chronicles the origins of our planet, as the three galactic empires fight for control of the human race. The novel charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, Ambien II, a 'dry, dutiful, efficient' female Sirian administrator. Witnessing the wanton colonization of land and people, Ambien begins to question her involvement in such insidious experimentati- on, her faith in the possibility of human progress itself growing weaker every day.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007455534
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1) written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Planet 8, a prosperous world with intelligent, vital inhabitants, is transformed by an Ice Age, a change that causes a critical variation in lifestyle and a drastic reappraisal of the meaning and value of life." --

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 : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307791777
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl in Landscape written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. • "Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday The heroine is young Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders. Girl in Landscape finds Jonathan Lethem twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale.

Author : Aslam Siddiqui
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Times of a Pakistani Citizen written by Aslam Siddiqui and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: