HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. (States:- First Edition.)* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, Gilt title to spine and impressed marks to front and back covers. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Coloured design to cover, price clipped. Minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. In protective library film wrapper. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, page edges rough cut, cream coloured end papers . FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 288 pp. text. ix pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Doris Lessing continues her thrilling "Canopus In Argos: Archives" series, with this dynamic third novel. Learn the life story of Ambien II, a female official, one of the elite group that has ruled the Sirian Empire for millenia. A NEAR FINE copy of the First US edition with no major faults reduced by price clipping to VG++.* 1981-01-01.

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Title

The Sirian Experiments: The Report by Ambien Ii, of the Five (Canopus in Argos--Archives)

Publisher

Alfred a Knopf

Publication Date

1981

Language

English

ISBN 10

0394512316

ISBN 13

9780394512310

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

y First Edition

Condition

F/F/VG++

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The third volume of Lessing's visionary series is the first-person account of Ambien II, a female ruler of the Sirian empire who slowly realizes how sophisticated the Canopus empire is and attempts to effect a similar society

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'The story Ambien tells is a panorama of the posibilities of civilisation and barbarism, ranging from a matriarchal version of Atlantis to the Aztec cult of human sacrifice. Doris Lessing's interests are strictly terrestrial an the figures from outer space are there to serve as tellers of an earthly tale providing a new, sometimes startling, perspective on earthly affairs and a largeless of vision beyond the horizon of the conventional novel.' - Robert Alter, New York Times

'One of our greatest contemporary writers...Doris Lessing has invented a new cosmology to look at the world in new way: she is attempting to tackle nothing less than all human life on Earth.' - Financial Times

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