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

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394529685 / ISBN 13: 9780394529684

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983

About this Item

SIGNED. 178pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and an embossed title on the front cover. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and the boards are splayed. In a dust jacket, with mild edge wear, and a thin 1/2" deep tear in the paper at the head of the jacket's spine. A science fiction novel, and the fifth book in Doris Lessing's cycle, Canopus in Argos: Archives. Signed by Doris Lessing, with the date "17th June 1984," on the second half title page.

Seller Inventory # 50181

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Canopus in Argos: Archives)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394529685
• ISBN 13: 9780394529684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy

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.