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Alfred and Emily by Doris May Lessing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first book after Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emo ...Show more
Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy by Sofia Tolstoy; Doris Lessing (foreword); Cathy Porter (trans.)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many children were not an unmitigated blessing. In ...Show more
The Cleft by Doris Lessing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, 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, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last endea ...Show more
The Cleft by Doris May Lessing
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, 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, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last ende ...Show more
The Fifth Child by Doris May Lessing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Paladin Books
A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four chi ...Show more
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
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 a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records he ...Show more
The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics) by Doris Lessing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
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 struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young ch ...Show more
The Good Terrorist by Doris May Lessing
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth-century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become ...Show more
The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The title story, The Grandmothers, is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and th ...Show more
The Grass is Singing by Doris May Lessing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the blac ...Show more
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 struggleagainst a ruthless fate. Mary Turner is a self-confident, i ...Show more