Shikasta: Re: Colonised Planet 5: personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Last Period of the Last Days (Record no. 4546)
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| ISBN | 0006547192 |
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| Classification number | 823.914 |
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| 100 0# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Lessing, Doris |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Shikasta: Re: Colonised Planet 5: personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Last Period of the Last Days |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Flamingo |
| Year of publication | 1994 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 448p. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Canopus in Argos: Archives |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Re: Colonised Planet 5 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction. |
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| Topical Term | English Fiction |
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| Topical Term | English Literature |
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| Topical Term | Science fiction, English |
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| Koha item type | BK |
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| Collection code | Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Stack | Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 23/05/2014 | 19.95 | 823.914 DOR/S | 07817 | BK |