This is Doris Lessing's continuation of her autobiography, "Under My Skin," focusing on the peak of her career following the success of her first novel in 1950. It explores her distinctive role in British literary and political life.
Doris Lessing Books
October 22, 1919 – November 17, 2013
This author is celebrated for her sharp intellect and unflinching examination of social and political issues. Her works delve into the complexities of the human psyche, the search for identity, and the struggle against societal constraints. Through her powerful prose and philosophical inquiries, this self-educated intellectual became a voice for those grappling with oppression and injustice.
After moving to London, Martha Quest finds herself being drawn toward a Bohemian way of life
In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by the author in a narrative of detail. She embraces every facet of life in Zimbabwe from the lost animals in the bush to political corruption, from AIDS to a successful communal enterprise created by rural blacks, and notes the kind of changes that can only be appreciated by one who has lived there before.
The first volume of Doris Lessing's `Collected African Stories', and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories.
This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized Lessing’s work: the bedrock realities of marriage and other relationships between men and women; the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities; the fate of women.The stories in this book were taken from the following previously published anthologies:Five (1953)The Habit of Loving (1957)A Man and Two Women (1963)The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories (1972)
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. 'The Four-Gated City' finds Martha Quest in 1950s London and very much part of the social history of the time: the Cold War, the anti-nuclear Aldermaston Marches, Swinging London, the deepening of poverty and social anarchy. Daring to go a step further - as Lessing so often has in her career - the novel ends with the century in the throes of World War Three. In the four previous novels of the 'Children of Violence' series, Lessing explored the end of an epoch. Here she trains her gaze on the present - and the future. The disquieting power of her vision revealed across this series finds its culmination in this brave and visionary work.
Walking in the Shade
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Under My Skin
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia. Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consciousness, her sexuality, and her politics, offering a rare opportunity to get under her skin and discover the forces that made her one of the most distinguished writers of our time. --amazon.com
This is an evocative look at the cats Doris Lessing has lived with featuring new stories. Lessing brings her shrewd observation of character and her own inimitable style to the feline world. Illustrated with full-colour pastels by Anne Robinson.
