Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.
In a pastoral boarding school, each of its twenty-seven boys struggles with either parental loss, hearing impairment, family alcoholism, probation officers, poverty, or guilt feelings. One boy records faithfully the day-to-day events--trials and tribulations--in his worn yellow notebook.
In this second volume of diaries from one of Australia’s greatest writers, we see Garner in love; asking herself questions about relationships, individuality, morality and contentment. For readers of Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, and avid Garner fans, this volume illuminates the inner life of a writer with all its turmoil and joy.
In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.
O Cheri Dancing With My Soul: The Journey of the Yellow Notebook is the true story of Cheri, an American dependent, who moved from New Orleans to Frankfurt, West Germany during the Cold War in 1978. She found herself immersed in a whole new world with other military brats, during a pivotal time in history when everything hung in the balance at the Fulda gap.This is a spirited authentic retelling of her experiences, and how she perceived them through the lens of her own deep spiritual inner life, giving her outer life a rich and multi-layered meaning. An unidentified empath, she understood inherently from the time she arrived, the deep wounds left behind by World War II. So, she began to write prolifically to express her feelings in a way that made sense, in a world that to her, made no sense at all.This is a journey through the eyes of the soul into something that she could see and feel, a world of duality and opposites, with the potential for enlightenment and peace. Cheri refused to give up on real love and the ideal of paradise, even during her darkest hours. She ultimately described her conflicting feelings of sadness, love, and hope in the one song that carried her message throughout the world, invisibly through the threads connecting her to her yellow notebook.The yellow notebook was a compilation of her many creative works that was accidentally left with a rock band during one of her surreal adventures, where she found herself in a situation, she could not have imagined possible. This book is the story that describes the sixteen-year-old girl that carried that message of hope and faith in her heart. We discover the person that she was and is, and how she came to terms with what happened to her notebook. In the end, she uncovered what she already knew, that we are all intrinsically connected through our life's blood and the power of love in the one gift that we all share, our world, our planet, our Mother Earth.
"""The Yellow Wallpaper"" is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.[1] It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.Narrated in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a ""temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency"", a diagnosis common to women during that period"
Unlock the more straightforward side of The Golden Notebook with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, which tells the story of Anna Wulf, who is struggling with writer’s block following the publication of her debut and only novel dealing with her experiences living in Africa. She attempts to organise her thoughts in a series of notebooks, each of which represents a different part of her life, before pulling together the various threads of her existence in the golden notebook of the title. The Golden Notebook is among Doris Lessing’s most acclaimed works, and in 2005 was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923. Find out everything you need to know about The Golden Notebook in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
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Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essays collected in this volume provide fresh analyses along with appreciative memoirs for 21st century readers of this well-known masterpiece.
