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(0)Doris Lessing
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English
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Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength. Ben's half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of the outsider has hardly ever before in fiction been portrayed with such raw power and righteous anger. Few, if any, living writers can have explored so many forbidding fictional worlds with such passion and conviction. — Kirkus Reviews
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...3) The cleft
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind's beginnings. In the last years of his life, a Roman senator embarks on one final epic endeavor, a retelling of the history of human creation. The story he relates is the little-known saga of the Clefts, an ancient community of women with no knowledge of nor need for men. Childbirth...
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table--her two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and fresh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Except financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons live with her proper ex-mother-in-law. And her ex-husband, Comrade Johnny,...
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
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"One of the most important writers of the past hundred years." - The Times (London)
In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how to understand what we know, how to pick a path in a world deluged with opinions and information, and how to look at our society and ourselves with fresh eyes.
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Publisher
Flamingo
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Doris Lessing's classic series of autobiographical novels is the fictional counterpart to Under My Skin. In these five novels, first published in the 1950's and 60s, Doris Lessing transformed her fascinating life into fiction, creating her most complex and compelling character, Martha Quest.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the piece are set in contemporary London, a city the author loves for its variety, its diversity, its transitoriness, the way it connects the life of animals and birds in the parks to the streets. Lessing's fiction also explores the darker corners of relationships between women...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
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A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." — New York Times Book Review
A rich and penetrating portrait of Lessing's homeland, African Laughter recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989, and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her opposition
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she falls in love with a seductive young actor, the beautiful and androgynous 28-year-old Bill, and then with the more mature 35-year-old director Henry. Finding herself in a state of longing and desire that she...
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English
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An unidentified man is admitted to a London hospital after he is found wandering on the Embankment. Later identified as a Cambridge lecturer, he remains oblivious to his past life. This novel develops the idea that mental illness can be a liberating experience for both the individual and society.
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Canopus in Argos archives volume 4
Publisher
Knopf : distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
16) The marriages between zones three, four, and five (as narrated by the chroniclers of zone three)
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Series
Canopus in Argos archives volume 2
Publisher
Knopf : distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
18) The fifth child
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.