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Doris Lessing
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…
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Lessing Doris
‘An extremely mature psychological study. [The Grass Is Singing] is full of touches of truth seldom mentioned but instantly recognized. By any standards, this, book shows remarkable powers and imagination.’…
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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…
D. H. Lawrence
Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a…
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Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford. Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically…
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At 18, Ben is in the world, but not of it. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life, searching the faces of those he…
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…
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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…
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 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…
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.
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 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.
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…
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…
Original publication and copyright date: 1971.
From the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature comes a memoir that interweaves fiction writing and autobiography in an utterly unique and innovative way.
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…
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…
Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories–a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer–is now back in print. This beautiful…
Doris Lessing’s long-awaited follow-up to the first part of her autobiography, Under My Skin.
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.
Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.
An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the second volume of her collected short stories.
The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Winner of…
A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the sequel to one of her most celebrated novels, ‘The Fifth Child’.
Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on.
First published in 1984, under a pseudonym, as ‘The Diary of a Good Neighbour’ and ‘If the Old Could …’, now published as ‘The Diaries of Jane Somers’, this is…
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories.
Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best occasional writings from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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…
