Doris Lessing

Ben, now grown and in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, unknowingly helps them transport drugs to Paris.

The Fifth Child

Canopus in Argos Archvies re Colonised Planet 5 - Personal Psychological Historical Document Relating to Visit By Johor ( George Sherban ) Emissary Grade 9 87th of the Period of the Last Days

Shikasta 

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 Memoirs of a Survivor

To Room Nineteen

Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.

A Novel

Martha Quest

A variety of narratives, including the report of Johor (George Sherban)--the Emissary sent by the Powers controlling our part of the universe--reveal what the planet Shikasta and its inhabitants have, in desperation, endured.

Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days

Shikasta

The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in, and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know.

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Thousands of years in the future, all the northern hemisphere is buried under the ice and snow of a new Ice Age. At the southern end of a large landmass called Ifrik, two children of the Mahondi people, seven-year old Mara and her younger brother, Dann, are abducted from their home in the middle of the night. Raised as outsiders in a poor rural village, Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of a life threatened as much by an unforgiving climate and menacing animals as by a hostile community of Rock People. Eventually they join the great human migration North, away from the drought that is turning the southern land to dust, and in search of a place with enough water and food to support human life. Traveling across the continent, the siblings enter cities rife with crime, power struggles, and corruption, learning as much about human nature as about how societies function. With a clear-eyed vision of the human condition, Mara and Dann is imaginative fiction at its best.

An Adventure

Mara and Dann

Ce livre dense, foisonnant et fascinant, amalgame et articule autour d'un roman intitulé " Femmes libres " les quatre carnets du journal d'Anna : le noir, le rouge, le jaune et le bleu, parce que Anna éprouve le besoin de séparer les choses qui " font " son existence. Et partout, des exigences, des pressions intérieures et extérieures amènent Anna à abandonner ses carnets, l'un après l'autre. C'est alors que, de leurs fragments entremêlés, peut surgir quelque chose d'autre, un texte neuf : " Le Carnet d'or ". Reflétant les grands courants politiques, sociaux et psychologiques de notre époque, analysant avec une rare acuité les rapports entre les femmes et les hommes, Le Carnet d'or nous offre une vision profonde et vivante, et aussi très révélatrice de l'expérience féminine moderne. Parmi les romans de Doris Lessing, remarquables d'intelligence, de passion et d'originalité, Le Carnet d'or, prix Médicis étranger, se détache comme le plus important.

roman

Le carnet d'or

Nihal Yeğinobalı

Beşinci çocuk

A middle-aged woman's search for freedom, this is classic Lessing, here given a stunning new image. Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and on her return to England, meets an extraordinary young woman whose charm and freedom of spirit encourages Kate in her own liberation. Kate's new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences.

The Summer Before the Dark

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.

The Golden Notebook

İnci Ötügen

Kedilere dair

"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." 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.

Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

Under My Skin

Canopus in Argos

"2007 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü" Genç bir yazar olan Anna Wulf, kocasından ayrılmış, küçük çocuğuyla birlikte oturmaktadır. Bir süredir hiçbir şey yazamadığı için, hiç de doyurucu olmayan ilişkilerin düş kırıklıklarıyla yaşamının çökmekte olduğu duygusuna kapılır. Delireceğini düşünür ve yaşadıklarını farklı renklerde dört defterde toplar. Siyah defterde, yazarlık sorunlarını dile getirir. Kırmızı defter, siyasal yaşamı içindir; sarı defter ise ilişkileri ve duyguları için. Mavi deftere de günlük olayları yazar. Ne ki, Anna’nın iyileşip yeniden doğuşuna giden kapıyı beşinci defter açacaktır: Altın Defter. 2007 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü’nü kazanan "Doris Lessing", kendisine büyük ün sağlayan Altın Defter‘le de, Fransa’nın en saygın ödüllerinden Médicis Ödülü’nü yabancı roman dalında almıştı. Roman, birçoklarınca feminist hareketin başyapıtı olarak kabul edilmiş, Lessing ise kişisel ve siyasal kimliğini aramakta olan bir kadının derinlikli öyküsünü anlattığını ileri sürerek bu görüşe uzak durmuştu.

Altın Defter

Features the author's memoir on the cats in her life, including collections from the author's previously published works, "Particularly Cats," "Rufus the Survivor," and "The Old Age of El Magnifico."

On Cats

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. Landlocked is the fourth novel of Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and collectively an incisive, all encompassing vision of our world in the twentiethcentury.

Landlocked

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. 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. A Ripple from the Storm is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

A Ripple From the Storm

The second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary London with her son, Peter, and the manuscript for her first novel, The Grass is Singing, under her arm to the publication of her most famous work of fiction, The Golden Notebook. She describes how communism dominated the intellectual life of the 1950s and how she, like nearly all communists, became disillusioned with extreme and rhetorical politics and left communism behind. Evoking the bohemian days of a young writer and single mother, Lessing speaks openly about her writing process, her friends and lovers, her involvement in the theater, and her political activities. Walking in the Shade is an invaluable social history as well as Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education.

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