The Resource Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing, (electronic resource)
Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing, (electronic resource)
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The item Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Richland Library.
- Summary
- I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness. In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother, Emily, spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital after her great love, a doctor, drowned in the Channel. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war; a story that begins with their meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, of the family's move to Africa, and of the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land. "Here I still am," says Doris Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with the publication of Alfred and Emily, she has done just that
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9780061862496
- Label
- Alfred and Emily
- Title
- Alfred and Emily
- Statement of responsibility
- Doris Lessing
- Subject
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- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 -- Family -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Amputees -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Biographical fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects
- British -- Zimbabwe -- Biography
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects
- Zimbabwe -- History -- 1890-1965 -- Fiction
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 -- Family -- Biography
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Casualties -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness. In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother, Emily, spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital after her great love, a doctor, drowned in the Channel. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war; a story that begins with their meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, of the family's move to Africa, and of the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land. "Here I still am," says Doris Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with the publication of Alfred and Emily, she has done just that
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1919-2013
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lessing, Doris
- Dewey number
- 823.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- hoopla digital
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lessing, Doris
- Lessing, Doris
- World War, 1914-1918
- Amputees
- British
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1914-1918
- Electronic books
- Zimbabwe
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780061862496
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11919369
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11919369
- System control number
- (MWT)MWT11919369
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780061862496
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11919369
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11919369
- System control number
- (MWT)MWT11919369
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- Amputees -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Biographical fiction
- British -- Zimbabwe -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 -- Family -- Biography
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 -- Family -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Casualties -- Biography
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects
- Zimbabwe -- History -- 1890-1965 -- Fiction
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