Doris Lessing: 56 books

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...

Un relato absorbente y feroz sobre los orígenes del amor de la mano de Doris Lessing. A sus sesenta y cinco años la dramaturga Sarah Durham se enamora de un bello y joven actor y luego de un director teatral, algo más maduro, pero al que también dobla la edad. Al encontrarse en un estado...

Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful...

In this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays, we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has learned, over the course of a brilliant career spanning more than half a century, to read the world differently. From imagining the secret sex life of Tolstoy to the secrets...

Dorris 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.

Un libro autobiográfico de la Premio Nobel de Literatura. 1949-1962. En esos años Doris Lessing llega a Inglaterra con su hijo pequeño y los bolsillos vacíos, pero con el manuscrito de su primera novela en la maleta. En este volumen Lessing nos relata su vida en Londres, su experiencia...

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...

This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized Lessing’s...

In Pursuit of the English is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you've probably never met or even read about--though they are the real English. The cast...

Ünlü yazar "Doris Lessing" bu romanında orta yaşı aşkın bir kadın yazarın, Sarah Durham'ın ağzından aşkı işliyor, çocukluktan başlayarak dostluğa, romantizme, cinsel tutkuya, hatta pornografiye kadar her yönüyle aşkı. Sarah Durham, intihar ettiği söylenen bir kadın sanatçının,...

Nobel Edebiyat Ödüllü yazar Doris Lessing, Alfred ile Emily'de, Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nın gölgesinde annesiyle babasının izini sürüyor. Kitabın ilk yarısını "savaş olmasaydı nasıl bir yaşamları olurdu"dan hareketle kaleme alan yazar, kitabın ikinci yarısında savaşın yaşamlarında...

Ünlü yazar "Doris Lessing" bu romanında orta yaşı aşkın bir kadın yazarın, Sarah Durham'ın ağzından aşkı işliyor, çocukluktan başlayarak dostluğa, romantizme, cinsel tutkuya, hatta pornografiye kadar her yönüyle aşkı. Sarah Durham, intihar ettiği söylenen bir kadın...

Nobel Edebiyat Ödüllü yazar Doris Lessing, Alfred ile Emily'de, Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nın gölgesinde annesiyle babasının izini sürüyor. Kitabın ilk yarısını "savaş olmasaydı nasıl bir yaşamları olurdu"dan hareketle kaleme alan yazar, kitabın ikinci yarısında savaşın...

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...