Memoirs of a Survivor, Lessing Doris

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Temptation of Jack Orkney, The
ISBN: 0006548075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006548072
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Описание: The grande dame of English literature -- one of her finest short story collections, beautifully repackaged Doris Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth from the complexities of relationships and the stories in this wonderful collection have lost none of their original power. Two marriages, both middle class, liberal and 'rather literary', share a shocking flaw, a secret 'cancer'. A young, beautiful woman from a working class family is courted by a very eligible, very upmarket man. An ageing actress falls in love for the first time but can only express her feelings through her stage performances because her happily married lover is unobtainable. A dedicated, lifelong rationalist is tempted, after the death of his father, by the comforts of religious belief. In this magnificent collection of stories, which spans four decades, Doris Lessing's unique gift for observation, her wit, her compassion and remarble ability to illuminate the complexities of human life are all remarkably displayed.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Sun Between Their Feet, The
ISBN: 0006545432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006545439
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Описание: Beautiful new edition of this classic collection 'As for these stories -- when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse starts beating, and I recognise it: it is time I wrote another story from that landscape, external and internal at the same time, which was once the Old Chief's Country.' Doris Lessing from the preface. This much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa and the glare of its sun and the wide open space, as well as the great, irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village -- all combine to present a powerful image of a continent which seems incorruptible in spite of all the people who plough, mine and plunder it to make their livi. In Doris Lessing's own words, 'Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.'

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Sirian Experiments, The
ISBN: 0006547214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006547211
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Описание: The third in Doris Lessing`s visionary novel cycle "Canopus in Argos: Archives". It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

Автор: Lessing Doris
Название: Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, The
ISBN: 0006547222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006547228
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Описание: From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle `Canopus in Argos: Archives`.

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.