Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (The Canopus in Argos Archives)

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394529685 / ISBN 13: 9780394529684

Published by Knopf, 1983

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (The Canopus in Argos Archives)
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394529685
• ISBN 13: 9780394529684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The fifth volume of the author's "Canopus in Argos" series focuses on the madness and false promise of words, rhetoric-induced delusion, as suffered by a young Canopean official in the small Volyen Empire

About the Author

Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include "The Grass is Singing", "The Golden Notebook" and "The Good Terrorist". In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, "The Times" ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.