Time Bites: Views and Reviews (First Edition)

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0060831405 / ISBN 13: 9780060831400

Published by 4th Estate, London, 2005

About this Item

London: Fourth Estate, 2004. First UK edition. First printing (with number 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap (£20.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Octavo, 376 pages. This collection assembles over 60 essays and reviews spanning several decades of Lessing s career, offering insights into her literary and political perspectives. Notable pieces include her reflections on Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and Virginia Woolf, as well as essays on lesser-known writers such as Anna Kavan and Idries Shah. Lessing also delves into topics like Sufism, the role of literature in society, and her personal experiences, providing a multifaceted view of her intellectual journey.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time Bites: Views and Reviews (First Edition)
• Publisher: 4th Estate, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060831405
• ISBN 13: 9780060831400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

“A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lucid, wise, knowledgeable, and witty.”— Booklist

In this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing’s essays we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has learned, over the course of a brilliant career, to read the world differently. From imagining the secret sex life of Tolstoy to the secrets of Sufism, from reviews of classic books to commentaries on world politics, these essays span an impressive range of subjects, cultures, periods, and themes, yet they are remarkably consistent in one key regard: Lessing’s clear-eyed vision and clearly-expressed prose. But in its breadth and precision Time Bites is more: it is also a map of the human spirit and an intimate diagram of the mind of one of our greatest living writers.

About the Author

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.