Lessing

1983 · rif. Rear-Copies-Lessing-1 — Knopf New York 1983 New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First American edition. First printing. Hardcover. Full black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Jacket has a couple tiny chips. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap $12.95. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy extraordinary condition. Octavo 179 pages. The fifth and final novel in Lessing's ambitious "Canopus in Argos: Archives" series a cycle of science fiction novels that examine human development colonialism and interstellar politics through the lens of galactic empires and spiritual evolution. The five novels in the series are: "Shikasta" 1979 "The Marriages Between Zones Three Four and Five" 1980 "The Sirian Experiments" 1981 "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8" 1982 and "The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire" 1983. Though controversial upon release for departing from her realist roots the series has been reappraised as a bold political and metaphysical experiment. Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 and also received the Somerset Maugham Award the French Prix Médicis étranger and the David Cohen Prize for Literature over the course of her career. Fiction Lessing. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Knopf, New York hardcover