Diaries of Jane Somers, The, Lessing Doris

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Martha Quest
ISBN: 0586089985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586089989
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Описание: The opening 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.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Mara and Dann
ISBN: 0006550835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006550839
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Описание: The new novel from one of the greatest twentieth-century writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, last visited in her acclaimed 'Canopus in Argos' quintet of novels in the 1980s. 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, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home...They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children's constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures that bring them through to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew. Doris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we only dimly perceive and scarcely know how to value.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Making of the Representative for Planet 8, The
ISBN: 0006547184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006547181
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Описание: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle `Canopus in Argos: Archives`.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: London Observed
ISBN: 0586092269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586092262
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Описание: A bilingual guide to French slang. It contains over 50,000 references that cover the colloquial and idiomatic as well as the truly outrageous. Featuring interesting French and English thesaurus sections, it is suitable for students of French.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Landlocked
ISBN: 0586090010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586090015
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Описание: The fourth book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The others are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm" and "The Four-Gated City".

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: In Pursuit of the English
ISBN: 0006545165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006545163
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Описание: In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail. But the English she pursued - and found - were living in working-class homes in East London. They were lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded - quite unlike what they were supposed to be.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Grass is Singing, The
ISBN: 0586089241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586089248
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Описание: Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in the arms of the houseboy.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Four-Gated City, The
ISBN: 0586090037 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586090039
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Описание: The fifth book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm" and "Landlocked".

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
ISBN: 0006548083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006548089
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Ben, in the World
ISBN: 0006552293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006552291
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Описание: Many will recall the powerful impact The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing's 1988 novel, made on publication. Its account of idyllic marital and parental bliss irredeemably shattered by the arrival of the feral fifth child of the Lovatts made for unnerving and compulsive reading. That child, Ben, now grown to legal maturity, is the central character of this sequel, which picks up the fable at the end of the childhood where the first book ended and takes our primal, misunderstood, maladjusted teenager out into the world, where again he meets mostly with mockery, fear and incomprehension but with just enough kindness and openness to keep him afloat as his adventures take him from London to the South of France and on to South America in his restless quest for community, companionship and peace. As in Mara and Dann, Doris Lessing in this newest book returns to a plain, unadorned prose fit for fables; again, we have a childlike perspective at the heart of the book; again, the world in all its malevolence and misapprehenison swirls around at the edge, while, occasionally, a strong character steps forward to try to stake out some values and practise some good behaviour. Again, it is one of Lessing's novels that will, I think, last most particularly as a work that imaginative teenagers of all ages will be riveted by.