Doris Lessing reissue with new jacket.
Harriet and David Lovatt want the same things - fidelity, love, family life and above all a permanent home. Stubbornly out of line with the fashions of the 1960s they decide to marry and lay down the foundations of their haven in a rambling Victo[...]
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 post-nuclear Britain.[...]
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 post-nuclear Britain. 'A Proper Marriage' sees twenty-something Martha beginning to realise that her marriage has been a terri[...]
The fourth 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 post-nuclear Britain.[...]
The first volume of Doris Lessing's 'Collected African Stories', and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.[...]
"The Man Who Loved Children" is a magnificent novel of family life. The Pollits--Sam and Henny and their swarming household of children and animals--are American. (The time: the 1940s; the setting: in and around Washington and Baltimore.) The writer who brings them overwhelmingly to life is Australi[...]
A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.[...]
This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.Whereas earlier assessments have focused on Lessing's relationship with feminism and the impact of her 1962 novel, The Golden Notebook, this book argues[...]
Ancient tradition suggests that this world-weary lament is the work of Solomon in old age. Casting its eye over the transient nature of life, the book questions the striving for wisdom and the truth, choosing instead to espouse the value of living for the moment. The text is introduced by Doris Less[...]
A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad." "From the Paperback edition.
Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century world literature. This volum[...]
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 collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life[...]
An intense exploration of the life and works of Doris Lessing and how their themes are reflected in the writer's own life.Free Woman begins at a wedding and ends in the African bush. This is a memoir of Feigel's own journey as a writer, which becomes enmeshed with that of Doris Lessing. Co-opting a [...]
Harriet og David bestemmer seg for å gå mot strømmen med fri sex og fri oppdragelse og i stedet skape et lykkelig hjem for en stor barneflokk.Doris Lessing i Aftenposten 28. mars 1989, da Det femte barnet utkom på norsk:«For tre år siden foretok jeg en reise til de afghanske flyktningleirene i[...]
Doris Lessings debutroman Gräset sjunger från 1950 blev mycket uppmärksammad. Den handlar om en maktkamp på många plan mellan två förlorare: den naiva och olyckliga vita farmarfrun Mary och hennes svarte tjänare Moses. Denna psykologiska och politiska roman kulminerar med ett mord. Tragedin,[...]
"Det här var en katt som hade haft ett hem men förlorat det. Han visste vad det ville säga att vara innekatt och någons älskling. Han ville bli klappad. Hans historia kändes välbekant."
Doris Lessing (född 1919) berättar historien om den hemlösa katten Rufus som steg för steg [...]
Nobelpristagare 2007
Bra giftär andra delen i romansviten Våldets barn om Martha Quest.
Bra gifthandlar om Martha Quests första äktenskap i Sydrhodesia, nuvarande Zimbabwe, sedan andra världskriget brutit ut. Nitton år gammal gifter hon sig med den välanpassade kolonialtjänstem[...]