Time Bites
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HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 28, 2006
“A generous and pleasurable collection. . . .
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- Who it’s for
- Move from literature to politics and Sufism with Lessing’s lucid, witty way of seeing.
- Themes
- Literary criticism, World politics, Sufism
- Genres
- Essay Collections, Books & Reading, Feminist Lit Crit
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“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.
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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.
A Mind at Work
Move from literature to politics and Sufism with Lessing’s lucid, witty way of seeing.
Come here for
- Essays that range across books, cultures, and world politics
- Clear-eyed observations with a playful edge
Expect
- A varied collection held together by Lessing’s precise prose
- A glimpse of how one writer reads the world
Where it sits
| Essay Collections | 93% |
|---|---|
| Feminist Lit Crit | 36% |
| Books & Reading | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Writers' Lives
- Personal Memoirs
- Education Resources
- Essay Collections
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- Medieval Collections
- Feminist Lit Crit
- Women Authors Criticism
- Books & Reading
- Authors
- Doris Lessing
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- November 28, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Literary criticism · World politics · Sufism
- Reading lane
- Writers' Lives