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Doris Lessing
Harriet and David Lovatt face a frightening dilemma: how to love a monstrosity they have brought into the world–hideous in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and brutal. A horror story…
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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…
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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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…
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…
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final 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.
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’.
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…
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A fascinating novel of love and ecology from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A group of squatters rebel against Mrs Thatcher and erupt into violence in this politicised novel from the author of ‘The Golden Notebook’.
A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A middle-aged woman’s search for freedom.
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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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…
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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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…
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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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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Original publication and copyright date: 1971.
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…
Now a major motion picture starring Naomi Watts and Robin Wright –Cover.
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…
A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.
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…
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.
