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... Golden Notebook , that acute portrayal of woman and urban society : a novel or an autobiography , a political essay or a psychiatric case - book ? ' ( Language and Silence , p . 421 ) . Walter Allen , though thinking well of the book ...
... Golden Notebook , that acute portrayal of woman and urban society : a novel or an autobiography , a political essay or a psychiatric case - book ? ' ( Language and Silence , p . 421 ) . Walter Allen , though thinking well of the book ...
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... Golden Notebook is taken up with the conventional narrative of Anna's life in the year 1957 ; most of it consists of the contents of her four notebooks : the black , in which she recalls the Rhodesian experiences that provided the ...
... Golden Notebook is taken up with the conventional narrative of Anna's life in the year 1957 ; most of it consists of the contents of her four notebooks : the black , in which she recalls the Rhodesian experiences that provided the ...
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... notebook outlines and early drafts that went into it . The process that most concerns Doris Lessing is the way in which ' experience ' is transformed into ' fiction ' . In The Golden Notebook we see the source material for Frontiers of ...
... notebook outlines and early drafts that went into it . The process that most concerns Doris Lessing is the way in which ' experience ' is transformed into ' fiction ' . In The Golden Notebook we see the source material for Frontiers of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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