Beautiful, striking reissue of this classic Lessing novel. Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. In fear of madness, she records her experiences in four coloured notebooks. The black notebook addresses her problems as a writer; the red her political life; the yellow her relationships and emotions; and the blue becomes ...
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Beautiful, striking reissue of this classic Lessing novel. Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. In fear of madness, she records her experiences in four coloured notebooks. The black notebook addresses her problems as a writer; the red her political life; the yellow her relationships and emotions; and the blue becomes a diary of everyday events. But it is the fifth notebook -- the Golden Notebook -- which is the key to her recovery and renaissance. Bold and illuminating, fusing sex, politics, madness and motherhood, The Golden Notebook is at once a wry and perceptive portrait of the intellectual and moral climate of the 1950s -- a society on the brink of feminism -- and a powerful and revealing account of a woman searching for her own personal and political identity.
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Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. The binding suffers minor loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; 1984 Simon & Schuster hard cover-5th printing-minor wear to edge of dust jacket-tanning minor staining and ink mark to closed page edge-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Fiction. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean and tight and square with sharp corners. 5th printing of this reissue of this 1962 classic. Light tan boards with gold lettering on the spine. Appears unread. Light soiling to the tiptops of the pages. Publisher's logo stamped on the bottom ends of the pages. The dust jacket has a little wear and tear along the edges and a spot of color loss near the top corner of the front panel. The color are still strong. The jacket is in new mylar.
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Very Good. Original 1962 Michael Joseph (UK) hard cover-1st edition 4th printing-ex-library whose only evidence is stamp inside front and back cover-envelop inside back cover and minor label on dust jacket spine-2 inch tear on dust jacket at spine-slight general wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to page edge-minor tape residue to cover-1 inch patch of cover surface off due to tape removal-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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Very Good. 1962 Simon & Schuster hard cover-BCE-some stain and wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover-staining on page edge-owner's name whited out-otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean-enjoy.
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Good. Original 1962 Simon & Schuster hard cover-no dust jacket-some staining to cover and page edge-webbing showing at front leaf-some minor underlining-otherwise binding strong contents fine-enjoy.
Reading THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK was a life-changing experience for me. The book resonated with me so strongly. It's the complex and beautiful story of Anna Wulf, a writer living in London. Anna writes about her love affairs, her job, her writing, her friends, her youthful days in Africa. Several notebooks comprise her diary. In the diary section, she writes of her life. In the novel section is the novel inspired by Anna's life. In a sense, it's a 'mix-and-match' book, like a four-piece suit. I've read the complete work. I've read the 'novel' part only. I've also read the diary section only. TGN is a brilliant novel--an intellectual primer on the 'crystallising process' (as she says) of novel-writing. For years, I'd heard/read rumours that Doris Lessing was this-close to winning the Nobel. So congratulations, Ms. Lessing!! I would also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you missed it!!
