SearchLibrary
More ▼
BookshelvesRedeem code
bookmate game
7 days for free
en
Read in our apps:
iOS
·
Android
Doris Lessing

Time Bites

Notify me when the book’s added
Impression
Add to shelf
Already read
Report an error in the book
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
Search on Google
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 spanning more than half a century, 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 cover 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.
Literary Criticism
This book is currently unavailable
404 printed pages
Original publication
2009
Publication year
2009
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Quotes

  • Natalya Mykhalkohas quoted6 years ago
    Incidentally I have never read such an excremental book. Is it possible that the author, who celebrates his Nazi childhood in a rich prose, suffers from an uncompleted psychoanalysis?
      • Like
      • Comment
      • Report this
    • Natalya Mykhalkohas quoted6 years ago
      These politics already have something of the flavour of ancient religious squabbles, but the novel will continue to be read, I think, for an ironical reason: its brilliant portraits of women.
        • Like
        • Comment
        • Report this

      On the bookshelves

      Don’t give a book. Give a library.Give a Bookmate subscription →
      fb2epub
      Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)