Doris Lessing Stories
Included are seminal stories like 'To Room Nineteen'; in which a woman reacts against the oppression of her banal marriage with dreadful results; 'One off the Short List', which traces the surprising conclusion to a seduction gone awry, and 'The H...
The Fiction of Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing (1919-2013), a prolific contemporary author, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her life work. Examining five decades of Lessing's unique life, narrative strategies, and the literary traditions that she drew upon a...
African Laughter
Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, a country from which...
Play With a Tiger and Other Plays
Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Written from 1950s to the 1970s, the three plays collected here reflect the social and political concerns of the times, and are rich with Doris Lessing'...
Walking in the Shade
The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Walking in the Shade' begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young son and the manuscript of her first novel. With...
In Pursuit of the English
By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail - ...
On Cats
A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Temptation of Jack Orkney
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the second volume of her collected short stories. Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the complexities of relationships, and the stories in this wonderful collection have lo...
To Room Nineteen
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories. For more than four decades, Doris Lessing's work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in h...
Landlocked
The fourth book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Martha Qu...
Fifth Child
A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.
Sun Between Their Feet
The second volume of Doris Lessing's 'Collected African Stories', and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'As for these stories - when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Tim...
Time Bites
Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best occasional writings from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays: articles on writers as diverse as Jane Austen, Muriel S...
The Cleft
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 this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing confronts the themes that inspired much of her early writing: how men and women manage to live side by side in the world and how the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of our existence. In the last years of his life, a Roman senator retells the history of human creation and reveals the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts 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.
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
The companion to a series of lectures given by Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in which she addresses some of the most important questions facing us today. 'This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to t...
Shikasta
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent ...
Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 and 5
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the second instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. This is the story of the kindly Queen of Zone Three, who rules a land free of all harshness, and...
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embank...
Mara and Dann
A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth's climate is much changed - it's colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, ...
Ben, in the World
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the sequel to one of her most celebrated novels, 'The Fifth Child'. 'The Fifth Child', Doris Lessing's 1988 novel, made a powerful impact on publication. Its account of idyllic marital ...
Cleft
Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator embarks on what may be his la...
Golden Notebook
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf...
Golden Notebook
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. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with...
Good Terrorist
A group of squatters rebel against Mrs Thatcher and erupt into violence in this politicised novel from the author of 'The Golden Notebook'. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty the...
Grass is Singing
The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white f...
The Grass Is Singing
'There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel.' -- New York Times Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggle against a ruthless fate. 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 works its slow poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences.
Gräset Sjunger
Kolonialism, rasism & könsroller i modernt mästerverk»Här finns passion, en genomträngande precision, en sällsynt känslighet och kraft... Man kan bara förundras.« New York TimesTrots att Mary bara träffat lantbrukaren Dick Turner två gånger bestämmer hon sig för att tacka ja när han friar. Hon lämnar sitt arbete i staden och flyttar med Dick till hans avskilt belägna farm. Mary känner sig allt mer isolerad och olycklig i sin nya tillvaro. Hon är dessutom ovan vid människor från den svarta delen av befolkningen, och bemöter arbetarna med förakt och kyla. När Moses, en av männen på farmen, får i uppgift att ta hand om hushållet stiger spänningarna ytterligare och snart befinner sig Mary, Dick och Moses i en spiral av rädsla, dominans och vrede.Gräset sjunger [1950] är Nobelpristagaren Doris Lessings debutroman. Den utspelar sig i 1940-talets Sydrhodesia, där Lessing själv levde. Med stort patos och psykologiskt djup tar hon sig an ämnen som kolonialism, rasism och könsroller, något som fick romanen att upplevas som kontroversiell men också ledde till att den blev en omedelbar succé.I översättning av Gunvor och Bertil Hökby. DORIS LESSING [1919-2013] var en brittisk författare, född i Persien. 1925 flyttade familjen till Sydrhodesia, där hon var bosatt fram till 1949 då hon flyttade till London. Lessing debuterade 1950 med den internationellt uppmärksammade romanen Gräset sjunger, som följdes av den semi-självbiografiska och hyllade romansvit som går under namnet Våldets barn. Lessings stora engagemang i social rättvisa, antikolonialism och kärnvapennedrustning kom att prägla hela hennes författarskap. 2007 tilldelades hon Nobelpriset i litteratur.»Gräset sjunger är ett mästarprov i konsten att bygga upp spänning och karaktär.« The Times
Martha Quest
'I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do.' -- Barbara Kingsolver 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 Ripple from the Storm
'Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition' which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.' -- New York Times Book Review 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.
Prisons We Choose to Live inside
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.
Stories
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Den femte sanningen
Nobelpriset 2007 Den femte sanningen handlar om en ung kvinna, författarinnan Anna Wulf, som efter ett kraschat äktenskap valt att leva ensam. Hon har skrivkramp och kan inte fullfölja sin roman som ska handla om fria kvinnor. I stället reflekterar hon över sitt eget liv i fyra olika anteckningsböcker en gul, en röd, en svart och en blå. Böckerna tar i tur och ordning upp hennes yrkesliv, hennes politiska liv, hennes kärleksliv och hennes vardagsliv. När Anna förälskar sig i en amerik