Doris Lessing - Time Bites: Views and Reviews

We are grateful to the original publishers of the items included in this anthology for their permission to do so. Although we have made every effort to contact copyright holders prior to publication, we will be happy to correct any inadvertent errors or omissions; 1: Preface to Norways Library of World Literature edition of Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag); 2: Preface to D. H. Lawrence: The Fox, (Hesperus Press, 2002); 3: Preface to Virginia Woolf: Carlyles House and Other Sketches (Hesperus Press, 2003); 4: On Tolstoy, first published as preface to Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata, The Modern Library (Random House, 2003); 5: Introduction to Christina Stead: The Man Who Loved Children, Everymans Library (Alfred Knopf, 1995); 6: Preface to Kalila and Dimna: The Fables of Bidpai retold by Ramsay Wood (Alfred Knopf, 1980); 7: Speech given on getting the Prince of Asturias Prize, Vigo, Spain, 2002; 8: Censorship, first published in Derek Jones: Censorship: A World Encyclopedia (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001); 9: Introduction to Guy Sajer: The Forgotten Soldier (Phoenix, 2000); 10: Preface to Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher: Authorized King James Version, Pocket Canons, (Canongate, 1998); 11: Writing Autobiography, lecture delivered with variations to more to more than one organization and included in an Oxford University Press publication in 1998; 12: Review of The Amazing Victorian: A Life of George Meredith by Mervyn Jones first published in the Sunday Times, 1999; 13: Preface to Mikhail Bulgakov: The Fatal Eggs translated by Hugh Aplin (Hesperus Press, 2003); 14: Now You See Her, Now You Dont, written for a Festchrift for Muriel Sparks to be published at a later date, to be announced; 15: Preface to Stendhal: Memoirs of an Egotist translated by Andrew Brown (Hesperus Press, 2003); 16: Review of Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age by Richard Rudgeley, first published in The Literary Review, 1998; 17: Henry Handel Richardson, review of Richardsons novels first published in The Spectator, 1992; 18: Preface to the reissue of The Golden Notebook (HarperPerennial, 1994); 19: Review of The Case of Anna Kavan: a biography by David Callard first published in The Independent, 1993; 20: Philip Glass, first published in an English National Opera publication; 21: Review of Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru by Tahir Shah first published in The Spectator, 10 March 2003; 22: William Phillips, written on his death, first published in the Partisan Review, 2003; 23: Books, first published in a special edition of Index on Censorship: Index on Libraries to celebrate the new library in Alexandra, Egypt, 1999; 24: Review of Before my Time by Niccolo Tucci first published in the 1960s; 25: Preface to Arthur J Deikman: Them and Us: Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat (Bay Tree Publishing, 1993); 26: Article on a biography, first published in The Spectator, 2000; 27: About Cats first published in Patrick Eddington (ed) : Cat Anthology (Private publication, Salt Lake City, 2000); 28: Review of The Maimie Papers edited by Ruth Rosen and Sue Davidson, first published in The Literary Review, 1979; 29: Review of Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner, first published in The Guardian; 30: When I was Young, written for A Little Book of Advice produced by Maynard School for girls, Exeter, 2000; 31: Preface to Writers and Artists Yearbook 2003 (A & C Black, 2003); 32: Preface to Simone de Beauvoir: The Mandarins translated by Leonard M. Friedman (Flamingo Modern Classics, 1984, 1993); 33: My Room, first published in Granta, London issue, 1999; 34: A Book that changed me, first published in the Independent on Sunday, 27 May 1990; 35: Promotional piece written for the Picador release of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, 1999; 36: Old, first published in John Burningham: The Time of Your Life (Bloomsbury, 2002); 37: Review of Professor Martens Departure by Jaan Kross translated by Anselm Hollo, first published in The Independent, 19 February 1994; 38: How Things Were, first published in David Morley (ed) : The Gift: New writings for the NHS (Stride, 2002); 39: Review of A Nazi Childhood by Winifried Weiss, first published in 1983; 40: Review of Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition by Idries Shah first published in the Sunday Telegraph, 4 October 1998; 41: The Tragedy of Zimbabwe, first published under the title The Jewel of Africa (in an edited form to suit American tastes) in the New York Review of Books, 10 April 2003; 42: Review of The Elephant in the Dark by Idries Shah first published in New Society, 22 August 1974; 43: What novel or novels prompted your own political awakening?, first published in the LA Times, 2000; 44: The most significant book to come out of Africa, first published in the Times Literary Supplement, 2001; 45: The Sufis, first published in Books and Bookmen; 46: Review of The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas translated by Elizabeth Rokkan first published in The Independent, 7 April 1993; 47: Problems, Myths and Stories, given as a lecture to the Institute of Cultural Research and then published by them as a monograph (1999); 48: After 9.11, first published in Granta, USA edition, 20 December 2001; 49: Review of The Past Is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg first published in 1988; 50: Review of The Journey of the Soul: The story of Hai bin Yaqzan by Abu Bakr Muhhamad bin Tufail translated by Riad Kocache first published in New Society, 1982; 51: Sufi Philosophy and Poetry, first published as a review of various Sufi classics in New Society, 1975; 52: Review of Among the Dervishes by Omar Burke first published in Books and Bookmen, 1974; 53: A Week in Heidelberg, read on Radio 4 as part of its participation in the World Festival of Literature, March 1999; 54: Review of Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution by Alma Guillermoprieto first published in the New York Observer, 2004; 55: Article first published in a Book Trust publication encouraging young people to read, 1988; 56: Response to being asked about a favourite childhood book: on The Three Royal Monkeys by Walter de la Mare, 1998; 57: Review of Catlore by Desmond Morris, first published in The Spectator; 58: Review of The Englishmans Handbook by Idries Shah first published in the Sunday Telegraph, 1997; 59: Introduction to A. E. Coppard: Selected Stories (Jonathan Cape, 1972); 60: Review of L. F. Rushbrook Williams (Ed) : Sufi Studies, East and West: A Symposium in honour of Idries Shahs Services to Sufi Studies, first published in Books and Bookmen, 1975; 61: Review of The Nine Emotional Loves of Cats by Jeffrey Masson first published in The Spectator, 16 November 2002; 62: Review of Mikiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin first published in The Observer, 24 March 1996; 63: Review of Clarissa by Samuel Richardson first published in the Independent on Sunday; 64: Summing Up, written when Idries Shah died, first published in the Daily Telegraph, 23 November 1996; 65: Article on opera first published in BBC Music Magazine, 12 September 1996.

NOVELS

The Grass is Singing

The Golden Notebook

Briefing for a Descent into Hell

The Summer Before the Dark

Memoirs of a Survivor

Diary of a Good Neighbour

If the Old Could

The Good Terrorist

Playing the Game: a Graphic Novel (illustrated by Charlie Adlard)

Love, Again

Mara and Dann

The Fifth Child

Ben, in the World

The Sweetest Dream

Canopus in Argos: Archives series

Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta

The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five

The Sirian Experiments