Shikasta

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0006547192

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Shikasta by Doris Lessing Pdf

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969075

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Identity in Doris Lessing's Space Fiction by Anonim Pdf

Author : Doris May Lessing
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0394507320

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Shikasta by Doris May Lessing Pdf

A variety of narratives, including the report of Johor (George Sherban)--the Emissary sent by the Powers controlling our part of the universe--reveal what the planet Shikasta and its inhabitants have, in desperation, endured

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : UOM:39015032574942

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Canopus in Argos by Doris Lessing Pdf

Author : John Shakespear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : English language
ISBN : KBR:KBR0000103382

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A Dictionary, Hindūstānī and English by John Shakespear Pdf

Author : Lauren J. Lacey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476614304

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The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come by Lauren J. Lacey Pdf

This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. The first two chapters look at revisionist rewritings of fairy tales and historical texts; the third and fourth focus on future-oriented narratives including dystopias and space fiction. Writers considered include Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Jeanette Winterson, among others. The author argues that an analysis of how past and future are understood in women's fantastic fictions brings to light an "ethics of becoming" in the texts--a way of interrupting, revising and remaking problematic power structures that are tied to identity markers like class, gender and race. The book reveals how fantastic fiction can be read as narratives of disruption that enable the creation of an ethics of becoming.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007455539

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Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1) by Doris Lessing Pdf

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.

Author : John Dowson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Urdu language
ISBN : OXFORD:N14033225

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A Grammar of the Urdū Or Hindūstānī Language by John Dowson Pdf

Author : Duncan Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : English language
ISBN : OXFORD:600094389

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A Smaller Hindustani and English Dictionary by Duncan Forbes Pdf

Author : Duncan Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : English language
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU58959084

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A Dictionary, Hindustani and English by Duncan Forbes Pdf

Author : Francis Steingass,John Richardson,Francis Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1560 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English language
ISBN : NLI:3191544-10

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A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary by Francis Steingass,John Richardson,Francis Johnson Pdf

Author : F. Steingass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1549 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136852480

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Persian-English Dictionary by F. Steingass Pdf

First published in 2004. This dictionary is a valuable resource for Persian to English translation and includes Arabic Words and Phrases to be found in Persian literature. The initial aim originally laid down for this Dictionary was to prepare a revised edition of Johnson's enlargement of Wilkins-Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary, by reducing the Arabic element and increasing the Persian, so as to produce a volume of moderate dimensions and price, specially adapted to the wants of the English Student.

Author : Duncan Forbes (Professor of Oriental Languages, King's College.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000577913

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A Dictionary, Hindustani and English: to which is Added a Reversed Part, English and Hindustani by Duncan Forbes (Professor of Oriental Languages, King's College.) Pdf

Author : John Shakespear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z197045102

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A dictionary, Hindustani and English, a English and Hindustani ... 4. ed. enlarged by John Shakespear Pdf

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Allegories
ISBN : 0006547214

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The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing Pdf

'The Sirian Experiments' is the third volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction. 'The Sirian Experiments' chronicles the origins of our planet, as the three galactic empires fight for control of the human race. The novel charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, Ambien II, a 'dry, dutiful, efficient' female Sirian administrator. Witnessing the wanton colonization of land and people, Ambien begins to question her involvement in such insidious experimentati- on, her faith in the possibility of human progress itself growing weaker every day.