Time Bites: Views And Reviews

In This Collection Of The Very Best Of Doris Lessing's Essays - Never Before Published In Book Form - We Are Treated To The Wisdom And Keen Insight Of A Writer Who Has Herself Learned, Over The Course Of A Long, Rich, Life, To Read The World Differently. From Imagining The Secret Sex Life Of Tolstoy To The Secrets Of Sufism, From Reviews Of Classic Books To Tales Of Her Beloved Cats, These Essays Span A Huge Range Of Subjects, Cultures, Periods And Themes, But They Are Utterly Consistent In One Key Regards: Lessing's Clear-eyed Vision And Clearly-expressed Prose. This Is A Book About Books And Writers - Stendhal And Muriel Spark, Pride And Prejudice Bulgakov And Clarissa - But In Its Breadth And Precision, Time Bites Is Also A Map Of The Human Spirit, Of Our Hopes, Fears And Basic Needs; And On A More Personal Level, A Map Of The Wonderful, Searching Mind Of One Of Our Greatest Living Writers.--book Jacket. Jane Austen -- D.h. Lawrence's The Fox -- Carlyle's House : Newly Discovered Pieces By Virginia Woolf -- On Tolstoy -- The Man Who Loved Children -- Kalila And Dimna, The Fables Of Bidpai -- Speech At Vigo On Getting The Prince Of Asturias Prize 2002 -- Censorship -- The Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer -- Preface To Ecclesiastes, King James Version -- Writing Autobiography -- The Amazing Victorian : A Life Of George Meredith -- Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs -- Now You See Her, Now You Don't -- Stendhal's Memoirs Of An Egotist -- Lost Civilisations Of The Stone Age -- Henry Handel Richardson -- A Reissue Of The Golden Notebook -- Anna Kavan -- Philip Glass -- Trail Of Feathers -- William Philips, Who Died In 2002 -- Books -- Niccolò Tucci's Before My Time -- The Wrong Way Home -- Biography -- About Cats -- The Maimie Papers -- Olive Schreiner -- When I Was Young-- -- Preface For The Writers' And Artists' Yearbook 2003 -- Simone De Beauvoir -- My Room -- A Book That Changed Me -- The Autobiography Of An Unknown Indian, Nirad C. Chaudhuri -- Old -- Professor Martens' Departure -- How Things Were -- A Nazi Childhood -- Knowing How To Know : A Practical Philosophy In The Sufi Tradition -- The Tragedy Of Zimbabwe -- East Meets West : The Elephant In The Dark -- What Novel Or Novels Prompted Your Own Political Awakening? -- The Most Significant Book To Come Out Of Africa -- The Sufis -- The Ice Palace : Frozen Secrets Stranded In A Waterfall -- Problems, Myths And Stories -- After 9.11 -- The Past Is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg -- The Story Of Hai -- Sufi Philosophy And Poetry -- The Way -- A Week In Heidelberg -- Dancing With Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto -- For A Book Trust Pamphlet -- The Three Royal Monkeys, Walter De La Mare -- Catlore, Desmond Morris -- The Englishman's Handbook -- A.e. Coppard -- A Festschrift, Idries Shah -- The Nine Emotional Lives Of Cats -- Mukiwa : A White Boy In Africa -- Clarissa -- Summing Up : When Idries Shah Died -- Opera. Doris Lessing. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 374-376).