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Literary Criticism
"A generous and pleasurable collection... Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page... [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lucid, wise, knowledgeable, and witty." -- Booklist In this collection of the very... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
"Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But -- a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people... See More
Literary Fiction
This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing's short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these... See More
History
"One of the most authentic books ever written about the English... Funny, touching and so real that the smell and taste of London seem to rise from its pages." -- San Francisco Chronicle In Pursuit of the English is a... See More
Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, African Stories -- a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer -- is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to... See More
Literature & Fiction
The Nobel Prize winner reflects on living "in a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures." In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing considers the... See More
The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her... See More
Literary Fiction
As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the... See More
Literary Fiction
"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever... See More
Literature & Fiction
Short Stories
"Doris Lessing has a powerful voice and a particular one. It speaks in anger at the distortion of personal relations ion a unsound society, but speaks it with a wit that manages to be both pitiless and compassionate."... See More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The first volume in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series is presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, and purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta-clearly the... See More
Literary Fiction
"[Lessing] is a pro, writing at the top of her powers, realistically, passionately, accessibly... a stirring novel" -- San Francisco Chronicle Frances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing another feast to readiness before... See More
Literature & Fiction
An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing... See More
Literary Fiction
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's... See More
A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant... [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." -- New York Times Book Review A rich and penetrating portrait... See More
Literary Fiction
"Tenderly perceptive... A resounding affirmation of humanity and what it holds dearest, from one of our most gifted storytellers." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Thousands of years in the future, all the northern... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
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' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it... See More
Literature & Fiction
From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind's beginnings. In this fascinating and beguiling... See More
Literary Fiction
"She has revealed that brilliant kernel at the heart of it all that we recognize as the truth." -- Francine Prose, Washington Post Book World Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and... See More
Literary Fiction
Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength. Ben's half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of the outsider has hardly... See More
Literary Fiction
"The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." -- New York Times Book Review Anna is a writer, author of one very successful... See More
Literary Fiction
"A keen sociological eye for class and ideology; an understanding of the contradictory impulses of the human heart; an ability to conjure a place, a mood and a time through seemingly matter-of-fact descriptions." -- Michiko... See More
Literature & Fiction
"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever... See More
Literary Fiction
"There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power... One can only marvel." -- New York Times Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of... See More
Literature & Fiction
Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing's unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
"The life she describes is heroic... yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel." -- San Francisco Chronicle The second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography covers... See More
Literature & Fiction
"Doris Lessing is the Cassandra of the documentary novel... crying for something harshly denied to our age: a longing for magic, for the irrational. Her concern for life, her independence of judgment and her gift for... See More
Foreign Languages
Nata in una misera fattoria sudafricana, a cento chilometri dalla prima città, Martha ha sedici anni ed è preda di tutte le crisi e insoddisfazioni adolescenziali. Sembra decisa ad affrontare gli esami di ammissione per... See More
Disaster
"Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the past 100 years, a shrewd visionary... Her new, short, haunting novel... succors us with... unforgettable visual images. We shiver and marvel as we lose ourselves in... See More