Doris Lessing Stories
$41.58
- Hardcover
696 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2008
Summary
This wide-ranging collection of stories by the renowned Nobel Laureate - spanning more than two decades of her astonishing career - highlights her singular gifts for portraying the complex lives of men and women in a modern, often alienating world.
Included are seminal stories like ‘To Room Nineteen’; in which a woman reacts against the oppression of her banal marriage with dreadful results; ‘One off the Short List’, which traces the surprising conclusion to a seduction gone awry, and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593166 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1841593168 |
| Author: | Doris Lessing Trust |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 696 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 636g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 136mm x 37mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Critics Review
“Doris Lessing’s artistry is demonstrated over and over in this generous collection.” -“Time”
“Lessing is the great realist writer of our time.” -Diane Johnson, “The New York Times Book Review”
”[Lessing’s] stock of reliable, solid information about life is enormous; her social range…impressively wide; her interests, human, varied, oddly reassuring.” -Margaret Drabble, “Saturday Review”
“From the Trade Paperback edition.”
About The Author
Doris Lessing Trust
Margaret Atwood is the author of over thirty works of fiction, poetry and essays. Her celebrated novel The Handmaid’s Tale was published in Everyman’s Library in 2006. Other works include the Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake.
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