Time Bites: Views and Reviews. Doris Lessing

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      DORIS LESSING

      Time Bites

      Views and Reviews

      CONTENTS

       1 Jane Austen

       2 D. H. Lawrence’s ‘The Fox’

       3 Carlyle’s House: Newly discovered pieces by Virginia Woolf

       4 On Tolstoy

       5 The Man Who Loved Children

       6 Kalila and Dimna – The Fables of Bidpai

       7 Speech at Vigo on getting the Prince of Asturias Prize 2002

       8 Censorship

       9 The Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer

       10 Preface to Ecclesiastes, King James Version

       11 Writing Autobiography

       12 The Amazing Victorian: A Life of George Meredith

       13 Bulgakov’s The Fatal Eggs

       14 ‘Now You See Her, Now You Don’t’

       15 Stendhal’s Memoirs of an Egotist

       16 Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age

       17 Henry Handel Richardson

       18 A reissue of The Golden Notebook

       19 Anna Kavan

       20 Philip Glass

       21 Trail of Feathers

       22 William Philips, who died in 2002

       23 Books

       24 Niccolo` Tucci’s Before My Time

       25 The Wrong Way Home

       26 Biography

       27 About Cats

       28 The Maimie Papers

       29 Olive Schreiner

       30 When I was young . . .

       31 Preface for the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook 2003

       32 Simone de Beauvoir

       33 My Room

       34 A book that changed me

       35 The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Nirad C. Chaudhuri

       36 Old

       37 Professor Martens’ Departure

       38 How Things Were

       39 A Nazi Childhood

       40 Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition

       41 The tragedy of Zimbabwe

       42 East meets West: The Elephant in the Dark

       43 ‘What novel or novels prompted your own political awakening?’

       44 The most significant book to come out of Africa

       45 The Sufis

       46 The Ice Palace: Frozen secrets stranded in a waterfall

       47 Problems, Myths and Stories

       48 After 9.11

       49 The Past is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg

       50 The Story of Hai

       51 Sufi philosophy and poetry

       52 The Way

       53 A week in Heidelberg

       54 Dancing with Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto

       55 For a Book Trust pamphlet

       56 The Three Royal Monkeys, Walter de la Mare

       57 Catlore, Desmond Morris

       58 The Englishman’s Handbook