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The Golden Notebook

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061582484
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Notebook written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

Doris Lessing

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Author : Carole Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Doris Lessing written by Carole Klein and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her life, Doris Lessing broke the rules in both her her personal life and within the accepted mores of literature. A trailblaser of the women's movement and an early experimenter with drugs, she gained notoriety in the sixties with her first novel The Grass is Singing, and subsequently with her explosive Golden Notebook and the Children of Violence series. At the age of eighty she remains part of the avant garde.

The Grass is Singing

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435901318
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Grass is Singing written by Doris Lessing and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1973 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.

Shikasta

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780006547198
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Shikasta written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Summer Before the Dark

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307777677
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Summer Before the Dark written by Doris Lessing and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. 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: on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 177089022X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Prisons We Choose to Live Inside written by Doris Lessing and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Grandmothers

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061847666
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Grandmothers written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing’s unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.

Free Woman

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Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635570964
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Free Woman written by Lara Feigel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Four-Gated City

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007455577
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Four-Gated City written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing

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Author : Graham Wolfe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000124363
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing written by Graham Wolfe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Alfred and Emily

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061862495
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Alfred and Emily written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Sirian Experiments

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006547211
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Sirian Experiments written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Sirian Experiments' is the third volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. 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. 'The Sirian Experiments' chronicles the origins of our planet, as the three galactic empires fight for control of the human race. The novel charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, Ambien II, a 'dry, dutiful, efficient' female Sirian administrator. Witnessing the wanton colonization of land and people, Ambien begins to question her involvement in such insidious experimentati- on, her faith in the possibility of human progress itself growing weaker every day.

The Sweetest Dream

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061760331
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Sweetest Dream written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[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.

The Doris Lessing Reader

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doris Lessing Reader written by Doris Lessing and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1989 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Memoirs of a Survivor

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006493259
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of a Survivor written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1995 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Fifth Child

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007154395
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Child written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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..

Canopus in Argos

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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Canopus in Argos written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: