![]() A new servant arrives whose name is Moses. Mary seems to live in her own world, totally isolated. She starts to dislike Dick more and more. Mary tries to give her husband advice, but it's already too late. He always starts a project but never finishes it. Mary has to run the farm now, and soon she discovers why Dick doesn't make any money. Dick comes to take her back to the farm, but after a while he falls ill. She looks worn out, she is just not the woman she used to be. She goes back to the city to apply for her old job, but they don't need her anymore. He and Dick used to be really good friends but now Mary gets in their way, and Samson decides to leave his job. The servant, Samson and Mary don't get along very well. Mary stays inside the house all day while Dick looks after his land. Everything is dirty and looks very cheap, quite different from her luxurious life in the city. It's even worse than the house where she was brought up. Dick tells her he is poor, but when she arrives at the farm she can't believe what she is seeing. Once in a while he comes to the city to buy things he needs for his farm. Than Mary meets Dick, a farmer, in the local cinema. He kisses her, and she doesn't like it at all. First she meets a fifty-five year old man with children. To get married seems to be a good idea, even though she hates sex. She thinks about it, and decides that she doesn't want to be alone her whole life. ![]() By coincidence she overhears her friends saying that they think it's time she got married. She lives in a house for single women, and Mary doesn't want to get married. Mary wants to see more of the world so she moves to the big city, where she finds a job as a secretary, has a lot of friends and seems to be happy. This book is about a woman called Mary, who was raised in the country on a farm. She becomes obsessed with things she doesn't even like, and she is very persuasive. Her mind developes in a very strange way. It is a psychological story because of Mary, the main character in this novel. The role of politics is demonstrated in the fact that the South-African Apartheid is a very important issue in this book. ![]() It is a political and psychological story to be exact. When the story begins, this novel seems to be a detective story, but it is actually more complex than that. Her other important books are: the series Children of violence (five novels, 1952-1969) and The Golden Notebook (1962). After her divorce in 1949 she decided to move to England, where she wrote her first novel When the Grass is singing. When she reached the age of thirty she visited her parents' birthplace, England, for the first time. When she was five years old she moved to Zimbabwe with her parents, where they lived on a farm. It indicates the way she thinks about her life.ĭoris Lessing was born in Persia in 1919. Mary hates hot weather and hates the noise. When the grass is singing it means that it is hot and then the cicadas (krekels) make a lot of noise. More than any other white African writer of her generation, Doris Lessing is aware of the seductive cruelty of colonialism, and is one of our strongest, fiercest voices against injustice, racism and sexual hypocrisy.The title is taken from a poem called The Waste Land written by T.S. It focuses on the blighted life of a woman whose spirit is destroyed by a disastrous marriage and by an environment to which she couldn't respond. In The Grass is Singing, you can feel the dynamo-like throb of a formidable talent by its side, most novels of 1950 look like crochet-work" (The Times). Independent on Sunday has called The Grass is Singing 'riginal and striking.full of those terrifying touches of truth, seldom mentioned but instantly recognised.' New Statesman 'Doris Lessing responds more passionately than most writers to people or situations: often she responds with hate or rancour, but always with passion. Fine in illustrated wrappers as issued without wear. Advanced Reading Copy of the first edition of the author’s first book.
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NPCs don't stand inside other NPCs while having a smalltalk conversation. + For modders: New property "FullBody" included in Item_PS. + For modders: Two new commands "ShowGameMessage" and "AddQuestLog" added to the script array of item templates. + The hero doesn't put away his staff or torch anymore when eating fruit, meat, fish, or bread. + For modders: Traders are now able to sell quest items. + For modders: Included possibility of non-random trade inventories (gETreasureDistribution_Trade_NotRandom). + Trader's amount of money slightly increased. Inventory related topics (trading, looting, etc.) + For modders: Implemented the possibility of quest descriptions (QuestDescription). Corrected height calculation in mission log window. ![]() + For modders: New quest type "13" (spell quests) adapted from Forsaken Gods. + For modders: New condition "CondPlayerPartyMember". + For modders: New info commands "Humanize", "GiveAll", "FailQuest", "JoinPlayer". + For modders: New info file parameter "SuppressLog". + For modders: InfoType=7 adapted from Forsaken Gods. + The "stage directions" (instructions about what gesture a NPC should make while saying a certain text) were moved from the stringtable to the info files. + The "Story helper" offers dialog options to "calm down" an enclave with "red NPCs" (exceptions: Gotha and Ardea), and dialog options to reduce the counter for "liberated cities". NPCs don't start to talk to the hero while he is jumping. + Randomization of smalltalk sentences improved. Clipping of shields that are worn on the arm reduced. Animals and monsters collapse, too, when the hero "assassinates" them. Animation of gargoyles and swamp lurkers improved. + Numerous textures corrected, improved or added. + FXAA implemented, edge smoothing removed. Depth of field / soft particle issue in combination with watersurface. Fixed lighting exploit when using animal transformation scrolls. + Specular light calculation changed from Blinn-Phong to Phong. Numerous holes between the head and the body of various NPCs have been mostly closed. When a weapon hits water, the water waves won't hover diagonally in the air. + Rim lighting and subsurface scattering on NPCs implemented. + Rim lighting, soft water and soft particles can't be switched off anymore. + Self shadowing added to light calculation. + Vegetation can now receive dynamic shadows (only when shadow quality is set to "very high"). + Dynamic shadows now fade out by distance. Shadow issue fixed that occured on Radeon 4000 graphic cards and above. You can assign info files to those "ghosts". + For modders: Certain types of new freepoints are supported now. When the hero gets enough XP to climb up two levels at once, he will actually perform these two levelups now. Fixed crash when viewing recipes without ResultItem. Fixed crash when summoning fog while being attacked in close combat. ![]() + Subtitles will be displayed if a soundfile is missing, even if subtitles have been deactivated in the ingame options. Timing issue on multicore processors fixed (can be switched on or off by Timer.ThreadSafe in ge3.ini). + Dynamic shader caching to reduce stuttering. + The ingame font art can now be set in the ge3.ini. + Parameter "Render.DisableFocusNames" in ge3.ini now also disables all scroll message texts. + Text language adjustable via audio menu. + Display refresh rate limitation removed. + Display aspect ratio limitation removed. ![]() + At the first start of the game the current desktop screen resolution will be used. + Autodetection of adequate graphic settings improved. + Resource cache can't be changed manually anymore, but will be calculated automatically instead. Community Patch v1.75 (patch & retail version) + "Looting by rightclicking" can be deactivated via ge3.ini (parameter QuickLoot). Nvidia 3D Vision issue - sky at wrong depth (can be switched on or off by Render.Nvidia3DVisionFix in ge3.ini). + Width of ingame menus depends on aspect ratio of the screen resolution (can be switched on or off by GUI.AutoAspect in ge3.ini). Light calculation on vegetation corrected. + Modkit enclosed as separate installer, incl. Community Patch v1.75.14 (not in retail version) |
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