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The first third of the book, especially, felt like a sloga pointless slog, with no promise of anything not quite sloggy to come. In 1982 she received the austrian state prize for literature and the shakespeare prize, hamburg. Briefing for a descent into hell vintage international ebook. The doris lessing society is dedicated to supporting the scholarly study of lessing s work. Doris lessing author doris lessing was born of british parents in persia in 1919 and taken to south africa at. Briefing for a descent into hell vintage international series by doris lessing.
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Briefing for a descent into hell you are not logged in. A professor of classics at cambridge university embarks on a psychological adventure to exotic locales and outer space while he is actually in a mental hospital, postbreakdown, in this novel from the nobel prizewinning author. Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, this purports to be a general study of the planet shikastaclearly the planet earthto be used by history students of the higher planet canopus and to be stored in the canopian archives. Click download or read online button to get descent into hell book now. Doris lessing project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks read. Briefing for a descent into hell by doris lessing ebook. Professor charles watkins of cambridge university is a patient at a mental hospital where the.
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