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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007369133
The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0006547192
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : IND:30000020678045
This reader has been assembled by Doris Lessing herself, and it provides a representative introduction to both her fiction and non-fiction. The book enables the reader to see her ideas evolve over the years as they recur and develop throughout her work.
Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635570960
A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the conventions of her own life, Feigel was enticed by Lessing's vision of freedom. Free Woman is essential reading for anyone whose life has been changed by books or has questioned the structures by which they live. Feigel tells Lessing's own story, veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made. At the same time, she scrutinises motherhood, marriage and sexual relationships with an unusually acute gaze. And in the process she conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. This is a genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.
Author : Graham Wolfe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000124361
This volume posits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre. Though theatre has made star appearances in dozens of literary fictions, including many by modern history’s most influential authors, no full-length study has dedicated itself specifically to theatre-fiction—in fact there has not even been a recognized name for the phenomenon. Focusing on Britain, where most of the world’s theatre-novels have been produced, and commencing in the late-nineteenth century, when theatre increasingly took on major roles in novels, Theatre-Fiction in Britain argues for the benefits of considering these works in relation to each other, to a history of development, and to the theatre of their time. New modes of intermedial analysis are modelled through close studies of Henry James, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, J. B. Priestley, Ngaio Marsh, Angela Carter, and Doris Lessing, all of whom were deeply involved in the theatre-world as playwrights, directors, reviewers, and theorists. Drawing as much on theatre scholarship as on literary theory, Theatre-Fiction in Britain presents theatre-fiction as one of the past century’s most vital means of exploring, reconsidering, and bringing forth theatre’s potentials.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007455577
The fifth and final 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.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0435901311
This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106010335047
In these twenty-four interviews spanning several decades, Doris Lessing talks frankly to a variety of interviewers--among them Joyce Carol Oates and Studs Terkel--about such subjects as her early years in Rhodesia, her involvement in Marxism and Sufism, her views on feminism, and her own fiction, especially The golden notebook.
Author : Margaret Moan Rowe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349236220
Through close 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 both a maverick and a mainstream novelist. Examining the pull of paternal and maternal biographical and literary identification in Lessing, Rowe relates them to the tensions between the ordinary and the visionary in her fiction.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 0007498780
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 distinguished career".
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770890220
In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Young adult fiction
ISBN : 0007154399
Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike, ' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world..
Author : Darshana Goswami
Publisher : Epitome Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Individuation (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : 9789380297200
Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, is one of the leading writers of our time. Her corpus encompasses a wide range of themes and concerns such as female identity, race-relations and dystopic visions of the future. This book makes a critical study of the different aspects of individual conscience as portrayed in the novels of Doris Lessing. It provides the broader contexts which nurtured Lessing's talent and aspirations, furnishes all the prominent biographical information, and finally offers critical interpretations of the individual works. Her novels studied here include The Grass is Singing, The Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Summer before the Dark, and The Briefing for a Descent into Hell. Contents: Individual Conscience in The Grass is Singing Martha in Quest of Roots: A Study of Identity Crisis in The Children of Violence The Golden Notebook: From Alienation to Integration The Summer before the Dark: Reconstruction of the Self Briefing for a Descent into Hell: A Schizoid on a Celestial Mission Conclusion.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061862496
I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness. In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother, Emily, spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital after her great love, a doctor, drowned in the Channel. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war; a story that begins with their meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, of the family's move to Africa, and of the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land. "Here I still am," says Doris Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with the publication of Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061760334
“[Lessing] is a pro, writing at the top of her powers, realistically, passionately, accessibly…. a stirring novel”—San Francisco Chronicle Frances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing another feast to readiness before ladling it out to the youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table—her two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends and new friends fresh off the street. It’s London in the 1960s and everything is being challenged and changed. But what is being tolerated? Comrade Johnny delivers political tirades, then laps up the adolescent adulation before disappearing into the night to evade the clutches of his responsibilities. Johnny’s mother funds all but finds she can embrace only one lost little girl—Sylvia, who leaves for a South African village dying of AIDS. These are the people dreaming the Sixties into being and who, on the morning after, woke to find they were the ones taxed with cleaning up and making good.
