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African Laughter by Lessing Doris
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 she had been banned for twenty-five years for her opposi ...Show more
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris May Lessing
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Category: Fiction
In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical inner-space life of an amnesiac. Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors a ...Show more
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary blend of fantasy and realism, this is classic Lessing, reissued here with a stunning new cover design. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical ...Show more
Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy by Sofia Tolstoy; Doris Lessing (foreword); Cathy Porter (trans.)
19.99 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 Fifth Child by Doris May Lessing
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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
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Fiction
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 they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desp ...Show more
The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing
19.99 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
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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
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