About the Book: The Golden Notebook
One of the most important works from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, exploring politics, feminism, motherhood and the intellectual climate of the 1950s read more
About the Book: The Good Terrorist
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth-century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction 2007.
In a Lond read more
About the Book: The Grass Is Singing
The classic first novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007
Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of the Grass is Singingwith her when she left Southern Rhodesi read more
Key Features
Dann is grown up now, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization. With his trusted companionsMara's daughter, his hope for the future; the abandoned child-soldier Griot, who discovers the meaning of love and t read more
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 imag read more
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 read more
In this profoundly moving book, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for t read more
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 read more
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. I read more
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 he read more
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