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Seventeen Novels by Doris Lessing
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Overview: Doris Lessing was born in Persia of British parents in 1919. She spent her childhood on her father's farm in what was then Southern Rhodesia. After leaving school at 14 she worked in a variety of jobs including typist, au pair and telephonist, maintaining her interest in writing all the while. Upon arrival in England in 1949 her first novel 'The Grass is Singing' was published (and was subsequently filmed in 1981). In 1982 she received the Austrian State Prize for Literature and the Shakespeare Prize, Hamburg. Doris Lessing has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and won the W H Smith Award in 1985. In August 1991, she received an honorary title of Distinguished Fellow in Literature in the School of English and American Studies conferred by University of East Anglia. In June 1995 she received an Honorary Degree from Harvard University. In 2001 she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature, one of Spain's most important distinctions, for her brilliant literary works in defense of freedom and Third World causes. She also received the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
In 2007 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
Martha Quest: The first book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language.
A Proper Marriage: The second book in the "Children of Violence" series: An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security.
A Ripple from the Storm: Third book in the "Children of Violence" series: In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.
Landlocked: Fourth book in the "Children of Violence" series: In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and her marriage to one of the movement's leaders is disintegrating. Determined to resist the erosion of her personality, she engages in the first satisfactory love affair and breaks free, if only momentarily, from her suffocating unhappiness.
The Four-Gated City: Fifth book in the "Children of Violence" series: In four previous novels, set in Africa and looking back to the past, to the violent heritage that shapes our social and psychological present, Doris Lessing has explored the end of an epoch. Now, in this immense visionary novel, she carries her protagonist, Martha Quest, to London and the world - into the present and the future. The power of her vision, its very shock and anguish, should prove liberating for the generation she defines as the "Children of Violence."
The Golden Notebook: The story of the inner and outer life of Anna, a young writer, single mother and member of the Communist Party, struggling with crises both in her domestic and political life, this book was hailed as a landmark by the Women's Movement.
African Stories: This book includes every story written by Doris Lessing about Africa: all of her first collection, This Was the Old Chief's Country (unavailable in America); the four tales about Africa from Five (also unavailable); the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women and four stories never before collected.
This, then, is Doris Lessing's Africa - where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here, as she sees them, are the complexities, the agonies and joys, the textures of African life and society.
Stories: 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 men and women, the crisis of the individual whose psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities, and the fate of women.
Mara and Dann, An Adventure: In a distant future plagued by drought, a seven-year-old girl, accompanied by her brother, encounters a variety of strange peoples in her insatiable thirst for self-knowledge.
An emotionally involving science-fantasy novel with a focus on history and sociological relevance, Mara and Dann is Doris Lessing's return to magic realism after a number of autobiographies and books of essays. As with most of her work, this tale is set in Africa (now known as Ifrik) but several thousand years in the future. Mara and Dann is a strange and powerful parable concerned with both mankind's usual foibles and great shifts in the environment, any of which might spell doom for the human race.
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: Dann is grown up now, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization. With his trusted companions—Mara's daughter, his hope for the future; the abandoned child-soldier Griot, who discovers the meaning of love and the ability to sing stories; and the snow dog, a faithful friend who brings him back from the depths of despair—Dann embarks on a strange and captivating adventure in a suddenly colder, more watery climate in the north.
The Memoirs of a Survivor: 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 painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy.
The Good Terrorist: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded a W.H. Smith Literary Award in 1985, this novel is set in the subsidized sub-culture of a Marxist group in Britain.
Love, Again: A daring, richly textured story of a 65-year-old woman who falls passionately in love with two much younger men. This is a brilliant anatomy of love--of longing, of grief, of all the experiences of love available to a woman in her lifetime.
The Summer Before The Dark: This novel, Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness.
Kate Brown, 45-year-old mother of four grown-up children, embarks on a summer of exploration, freedom and self-discovery, during which she rejects the sterotypes of femininity - which, like her conventional clothes, do not fit her anymore.
NEW SET:
Briefing for a Descent into Hell: Awards: The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad." 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 on a tremendous psychological adventure where, after spinning endlessly on a raft in the Atlantic, he lands on a tropical island inhabited by strange creatures with strange customs. Later, he is carried off on a cosmic journey into space…
The Grandmothers: With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The collection contains: The Grandmothers, Victoria and the Staveneys, The Reason For It, A Love Child.
An Old Woman and Her Cat (Novella): From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a woman's gradual drift outside the limits of society.
An old woman, with gipsy blood, begins to find the conventions of society stifling - when her husband dies, and her children leave home, she embraces a marginal, unconventional existence, accompanied by her faithful cat.
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Requirements: ePub Reader, Mobi Reader, 23 MB
Overview: Doris Lessing was born in Persia of British parents in 1919. She spent her childhood on her father's farm in what was then Southern Rhodesia. After leaving school at 14 she worked in a variety of jobs including typist, au pair and telephonist, maintaining her interest in writing all the while. Upon arrival in England in 1949 her first novel 'The Grass is Singing' was published (and was subsequently filmed in 1981). In 1982 she received the Austrian State Prize for Literature and the Shakespeare Prize, Hamburg. Doris Lessing has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and won the W H Smith Award in 1985. In August 1991, she received an honorary title of Distinguished Fellow in Literature in the School of English and American Studies conferred by University of East Anglia. In June 1995 she received an Honorary Degree from Harvard University. In 2001 she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature, one of Spain's most important distinctions, for her brilliant literary works in defense of freedom and Third World causes. She also received the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
In 2007 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
Martha Quest: The first book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language.
A Proper Marriage: The second book in the "Children of Violence" series: An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security.
A Ripple from the Storm: Third book in the "Children of Violence" series: In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.
Landlocked: Fourth book in the "Children of Violence" series: In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and her marriage to one of the movement's leaders is disintegrating. Determined to resist the erosion of her personality, she engages in the first satisfactory love affair and breaks free, if only momentarily, from her suffocating unhappiness.
The Four-Gated City: Fifth book in the "Children of Violence" series: In four previous novels, set in Africa and looking back to the past, to the violent heritage that shapes our social and psychological present, Doris Lessing has explored the end of an epoch. Now, in this immense visionary novel, she carries her protagonist, Martha Quest, to London and the world - into the present and the future. The power of her vision, its very shock and anguish, should prove liberating for the generation she defines as the "Children of Violence."
The Golden Notebook: The story of the inner and outer life of Anna, a young writer, single mother and member of the Communist Party, struggling with crises both in her domestic and political life, this book was hailed as a landmark by the Women's Movement.
African Stories: This book includes every story written by Doris Lessing about Africa: all of her first collection, This Was the Old Chief's Country (unavailable in America); the four tales about Africa from Five (also unavailable); the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women and four stories never before collected.
This, then, is Doris Lessing's Africa - where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here, as she sees them, are the complexities, the agonies and joys, the textures of African life and society.
Stories: 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 men and women, the crisis of the individual whose psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities, and the fate of women.
Mara and Dann, An Adventure: In a distant future plagued by drought, a seven-year-old girl, accompanied by her brother, encounters a variety of strange peoples in her insatiable thirst for self-knowledge.
An emotionally involving science-fantasy novel with a focus on history and sociological relevance, Mara and Dann is Doris Lessing's return to magic realism after a number of autobiographies and books of essays. As with most of her work, this tale is set in Africa (now known as Ifrik) but several thousand years in the future. Mara and Dann is a strange and powerful parable concerned with both mankind's usual foibles and great shifts in the environment, any of which might spell doom for the human race.
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: Dann is grown up now, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization. With his trusted companions—Mara's daughter, his hope for the future; the abandoned child-soldier Griot, who discovers the meaning of love and the ability to sing stories; and the snow dog, a faithful friend who brings him back from the depths of despair—Dann embarks on a strange and captivating adventure in a suddenly colder, more watery climate in the north.
The Memoirs of a Survivor: 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 painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy.
The Good Terrorist: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded a W.H. Smith Literary Award in 1985, this novel is set in the subsidized sub-culture of a Marxist group in Britain.
Love, Again: A daring, richly textured story of a 65-year-old woman who falls passionately in love with two much younger men. This is a brilliant anatomy of love--of longing, of grief, of all the experiences of love available to a woman in her lifetime.
The Summer Before The Dark: This novel, Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness.
Kate Brown, 45-year-old mother of four grown-up children, embarks on a summer of exploration, freedom and self-discovery, during which she rejects the sterotypes of femininity - which, like her conventional clothes, do not fit her anymore.
NEW SET:
Briefing for a Descent into Hell: Awards: The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad." 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 on a tremendous psychological adventure where, after spinning endlessly on a raft in the Atlantic, he lands on a tropical island inhabited by strange creatures with strange customs. Later, he is carried off on a cosmic journey into space…
The Grandmothers: With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The collection contains: The Grandmothers, Victoria and the Staveneys, The Reason For It, A Love Child.
An Old Woman and Her Cat (Novella): From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a woman's gradual drift outside the limits of society.
An old woman, with gipsy blood, begins to find the conventions of society stifling - when her husband dies, and her children leave home, she embraces a marginal, unconventional existence, accompanied by her faithful cat.
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