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Alfred and Emily by Doris May Lessing
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
Ben, in the World by Doris May Lessing
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A sequel to one of Lessing's most celebrated novels, 'The Fifth Child'.
The Cleft by Doris May Lessing
$27.99 NZD
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
$23.50 NZD
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 May Lessing
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroi ...Show more
The Good Terrorist by Doris May Lessing
$27.99 NZD
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 Summer Before the Dark by Doris May Lessing
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age. As the summer begins, Kate Brown--attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown c ...Show more
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.
Walking in the Shade - Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 by Doris May Lessing
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Doris Lessing joined the Communist in London, and here she explores the allure communism held for artists, intellectuals, and social reformist idealists in the 1950s. A fascinating meditation on the psychological, sociological, and historical roots of a generation's behavior, Lessing offers insight into ...Show more
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-62 by Doris May Lessing
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The second volume of one of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century.
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