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Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing’s long-awaited follow-up to the first part of her autobiography, Under My Skin.
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Original publication and copyright date: 1971.
Here is yet more evidence that this writer of enormous insight and prodigious talent should have won the Nobel Prize decades ago. – Chicago Tribune.
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From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the sequel to one of her most celebrated novels, ‘The Fifth Child’.
A middle-aged woman’s search for freedom.
Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on.
Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free…
A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.
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Seda ARIKAN
This study focuses on Doris Lessing's claim to improve a virtuous life not only for the individual but also for societies, referring to her novels and her non-fictional works. The…
Carmen Garcia Navarro
The book uses Doris Lessing's narratives as a springboard for new contributions to the study of the ageing of women. It discusses the elements serving as indicators of the well-being…
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Lorna Sage
This study, originally published in 1983, surveys Doris Lessing’s epic output from her early, African writings to her later experiments with space fiction. It traces her struggles to decentre imaginative…
Margaret Moan Rowe
Through readings of Doris Lessing’s novels from The Grass is Singing to The Fifth Child, Margaret Moan Rowe maps many of the literary and cultural negotiations that make Doris Lessing…
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Michael Thorpe
Susan Watkins
This book examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she…
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Doris Lessing Trust
Includes stories like To Room Nineteen , in which a woman reacts against the oppression of her banal marriage with dreadful results; One off the Short List , that traces…
Set in London, Paris, the south of France, or the English countryside, these 35 stories reflect themes that characterize Doris Lessing’s work–the bedrock realities of marriage and other relationships between…
Professor Charles Watkins of Cambridge University is a patient at a mental hospital where the doctors try with increasing drugs to bring his mind under control. But Watkins has embarked…
A brilliantly imagined novel of fantasy and adventure set in a distant, drought-filled future, written by the renowned author of Love, Again and The Golden Notebook.
The third book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s “Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in…
The fourth book in the Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in…
A powerful contemporary novel about a group of would-be terrorists in London that Susan Brownmiller in Newsday called a bone-tingling narrative that should stand as the crowning achievement of Lessing’s…
This memoir is Doris Lessing’s account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house, a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners.
Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, the decade that changed the world, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look from one of the greatest writers of our time at…
Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Limited, London, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1973 –T.p. verso.
Assembled here are the very best of several decades’ worth of occasional writings from perhaps the best-loved and most-admired of Britain’s great female writers.
In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing envisions a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, jealousy, and petty rivalries–essentially, a society free from men. Lessing confronts the troublesome particulars of…
The author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in. It includes answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what…
A fascinating novel of love and ecology from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A collection of short stories set in contemporary London - a city the author loves for its variety, its diversity and transitoriness. Doris Lessing is the author of The Golden…
Lessing has always incorporated her life into her fiction, but not until the eagerly awaited publication of Under My Skin did her readers have direct access to the fascinating and…
The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in…
The second book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in…
In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city’s disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own…
The third in Doris Lessing’s visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives . It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo- documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
Widowed for many years, and with grown children, a 65-year-old woman falls in love again and struggles to maintain her sanity. Finding herself in a state of longing and desire…
Tells the story of Sarah Durham, an old woman, who falls in love with two younger men, one after the other. Doris Lessing explores themes she has never tackled before…
A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.
A disturbing allegory, centered around a planet called Shikasta, which bears remarkable similarities to Earth. Through time, a higher planet, Canopus, has documented the progress of Shikasta and tried to…
I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it…
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The companion to a series of lectures given by Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in which she addresses some of the most important questions facing us today.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.
