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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1387 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007572632
This collection brings together three of Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s most acclaimed novels.
Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174227
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorkerfor close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times.
Author : A. Ridout,R. Rubenstein,S. Singer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137477422
Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essays collected in this volume provide fresh analyses along with appreciative memoirs for 21st century readers of this well-known masterpiece.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Mary Karr
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Families
ISBN : 0140179836
The author, a poet, recounts her difficult childhood growing up in a Texas oil town.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0435901311
This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.
Author : Laura Kipnis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307495440
From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and claiming independence. Rather than blaming the usual suspects—men, the media—Kipnis takes a hard look at culprits closer to home, namely women themselves. Kipnis serves up the gory details of the mutual displeasure between men and women in painfully hilarious detail. Is anatomy destiny after all? An ambitious and original reassessment of feminism and women’s ambivalence about it, The Female Thing breathes provocative new life into that age-old question.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Maroula Joannou
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719053390
This wide-ranging study provides a historically grounded account of women's fiction in the 1960s and the 1970s, relating changes in the social structure of Britain and the United States to the literary representations of women's experience.
Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher : HMH
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547542140
The story of an upper-middle-class unwed mother in 1960s London, from a novelist who is “often as meticulous as Jane Austen and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh” (Los Angeles Times). In a newly swinging London, Rosamund Stacey indulges in a premarital sexual encounter—and soon thereafter finds herself pregnant. Despite her fierce independence and academic brilliance, Rosamund is in fact naïve and unworldly, and the choices before her are terrifying. But in the perfection and helplessness of her baby she finds an unconditional love she has never known before—and as she navigates a situation still considered scandalous in her circles, she may discover that motherhood and independence need not be mutually exclusive. From “one of Britain’s most dazzling writers,” the award-winning author of The Dark Flood Rises, The Millstone captures both a moment in history when women’s lives were changing dramatically and the timeless truths of the female experience (The New York Times Book Review).
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Diary fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106012888084
Lessing's powerful and liberating feminist classic--now available in a beautiful trade paperback edition. Alternating between a conventional novel, involving Anna and her friend Molly, and Anna's journal entries, the notebooks reflect various aspects of Anna's personal and political upheavals.
