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Alfred and Emily by Doris May Lessing
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
On Cats by Doris Lessing
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A collection of Doris Lessing's charming and celebrated writings about cats. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where she grew up. Her fascination remained undiminished by the handsome domesticated creat ...Show more
The Cleft by Doris May Lessing
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics) by Doris Lessing
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Grandmothers by Doris Lessing
$25.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog by Doris Lessing
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is a fascinating novel of love and ecology, from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, first visited in her "Canopus in Argos" quintet of novels in the 1980s, and in 'Mara and Dann', of which this is a sequel, in 1999. The earth's ...Show more
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