Documents Relating to The SENTIMENTAL AGENTS in the Volyen Empire (Canopus in Argos--Archives)

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394723864 / ISBN 13: 9780394723860

Published by Vintage, New York, 1984

About this Item

First PB Edition, 1st Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. About Fine w/ 1/2" dent and soil vertical page edge, else Fine and unmarked. 179pp.

Seller Inventory # 035307

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Documents Relating to The SENTIMENTAL AGENTS in the Volyen Empire (Canopus in Argos--Archives)
• Publisher: Vintage, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394723864
• ISBN 13: 9780394723860
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: About Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Science Fiction/ Fantasy/Horror

About this title

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.