Doris Lessing: 56 books

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...

This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessing calls collectively Canopus in Argos: Archives. Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, this purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta–clearly the planet Earth–to be used...

Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs . . . Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons—taboo-shattering passions that last for years,...

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...

"Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But--a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps..." Going Home is Doris...

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...

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...

The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change...

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...

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...

Ahí donde la ciencia no llega, el talento de una maestra abre caminos. Imaginen una costa escarpada, donde las olas del mar lamen unas rocas antiguas; ahí, tendidas entre el agua y la piedra, yacen unas hembras que nunca han conocido varón. Tienen su propio lenguaje y sus ritos ancestrales,...

Un clásico de Doris Lessing, Premio Nobel de Literatura, sobre la desgracia que sorprende a una familia con la llegada de su quinto hijo, Ben, un personaje salvaje y brutal. En la desinhibida sociedad inglesa de finales de la década de 1960, Harriet y David Lovatt, una pareja de clase media-alta,...

Narradora excepcional de aquellas cosas que no suelen decirse, la Premio Nobel de Literatura, Doris Lessing nos brinda una historia sobre la pérdida de la infancia. A través del túnel cuenta la historia de un verano decisivo en la vida de un chaval. Tras observar durante días una...

2007 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü Bugünkü adı Zimbabwe olan Rodezya´da, kendisi gibi Beyazların gittiği bir okulda bağnazca önyargılarla yetişmiş olan Mary, kendisine ilgi gösteren ilk erkekle evlenir. Kocası çiftçi Dick Turner´la birlikte yoksul ve mutsuz bir yaşamın içinde bulur kendini....