African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
 An Unsure Joy: This was the only non-travel guide about Africa in my local library branch when I got back from 8 months in East Africa, so I picked it up. Certainly a very interesting picture of the slow death of British colonialism, despite Zimbabwean [... more]
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Shikasta
This really is astounding: Shikasta is a huge, imaginative, and thoughtful novel, presenting the history of humankind, and its eventual fate, through a series of reports and letters. This immense history is woven through and connected with a deeply [... more]
CDN$20.03
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A Hero of Our Time
A superb story: a hero of our time is one of the memorable stories I have ever read and it still haunts me with its beauty. In a Quixotic Lermontov effortlessly takes the reader through the beauty of the Caucasian mountains wrapped up with the richness [... more]
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In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
warm working-class reception...or something: This little book is a gem in every way. Lessing's loving account of how she got along when she first came to London/England is warm, witty, funny and written with an admirable insight into the minds of people [... more]
CDN$15.58
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The Kreutzer Sonata
Tolstoy was an idiot: Let me caveat this review: I only have read the title story, and my review is based entirely on that. This story was truly awful. It is an overlong, relentlessly endless, uber-puritanical tirade. Tolstoy was, at least at this point [... more]
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Time Bites: Views and Reviews
Author: Doris May Lessing Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9780060831417 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0060831413 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2006-11-16 [... more]
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The Four-Gated City
Very insightful view of ~20 yrs aft. 1945-people,politics,+: For me, incredibly deep view of life in England approx 1945-mid 60's and the future. One of the books I would take to a desert island - I have read and reread it. I so appreciate her insights [... more]
CDN$22.00
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Good Terrorist
This writer! I've called my daughter after her: "Doris": Why hasn't this writer been awarded the Nobel yet?! Gut-wrenching: I read the book; I have not heard the audio version so cannot comment on it. The book was amazing. A chilling study of [... more]
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L'echo lointain de l'orage
Author: Doris Lessing Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 828'.914 EAN: 9782226008718 ISBN: 2226008713 Publication Date: 1985-12-01 [... more]
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Four Gated City
Very insightful view of ~20 yrs aft. 1945-people,politics,+: For me, incredibly deep view of life in England approx 1945-mid 60's and the future. One of the books I would take to a desert island - I have read and reread it. I so appreciate her insights [... more]
CDN$17.50
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The Fatal Eggs
Slow, predictable with some fantastic moments: The satire element of this story is so oudated that it fails completly to enliven the functional prose, the tedious details and the very thin and predictable plot. But Bulgakov IS a great writer, and his [... more]
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Summer Before the Dark
a midlife tale from one of the world's greatest writers: "You are young, and then you are middle-aged, but it is hard to tell the moment of passage from one state to the next. Then you are old, but you hardly know when it happened." Thus [... more]
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