Doris Lessing
2) Stories
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Collects all of the acclaimed writer's stories, except those which deal with life in Africa, presenting intact a major aspect of her work.
Author
Series
Children of violence series volume 4
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
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. -- from Amazon.
4) Martha Quest
Author
Series
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Set in South Africa under white rule, [this book is] both a ... chronicle of human disintegration and an ... understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses.......
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Young siblings Mara and Dann are abducted from their home in the middle of the new Ice Age and left by themselves to survive the cold weather and bands of violent Rock People. The children finally catch up with the human migration to a warmer climate, but then must travel through cities and countries devastated by poverty and disease.
10) La grieta
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
The Clefts, an ancient community of women, have neither need nor knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange new child--a boy--the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy.
11) The fifth child
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story-centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human-probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
A detailed sociopolitical portrait of everyday life within a terrorist group in contemporary London. Alice Mellings mothers a collection of squatters in an abandoned house. The group evolves from radicals in spirit to revolutionaries in practice.
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