The Four Gated City

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007455577
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four-Gated City written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth and final 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.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martha Quest written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : DORIS LESSING
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A RIPPLE FROM THE STORM written by DORIS LESSING and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four-gated City written by Doris Lessing and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1969 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth 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 other books are Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm and Landlocked.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062047930
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Proper Marriage written by Doris Lessing and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007397267
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating novel of love and ecology from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000737867X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Briefing for a Descent Into Hell written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Author : Barbara Hill Rigney
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299077143
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel written by Barbara Hill Rigney and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A greater part of the feminist movement has considered traditional psychology to be both a product and a defense of the status quo, a patriarchal society. Here, Barbara Hill Rigney explores emerging feminist psychology by applying it to literary works by women who have depicted the relationship between madness and the female condition. The result is a fascinating and illuminating exposition, certain to be welcomed by students and scholars in literature and women's studies, as well as those in sociology and psychology whose interests include feminism and problems of women and society. Among the works Rigney considers are Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City, and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, all of which depict insanity in relation to sexual politics. These authors portray a patriarchal social system which, in itself, manifests symptoms of collusive madness in the form of war or sexual oppression and is thereby seen as threatening to female psychological survival. Each of Rigney's author subjects sees her protagonist as tragically divided between male society's prescribed roles for women and a sense of an authentic self. Thus emerges a pattern, common to all works, in which the divided self is reflected by the inevitable juxtaposition of the protagonist to a doppelgänger, an "insane" self, an extension of the protagonist who herself can be regarded as sane only by degree. A return to "true" sanity is traced through the patterns found in the selected works. Rigney explores the literary metaphor of the return of Demeter or the Amazon mother to restore the alienated female protagonists. In order to begin the return from psychosis, Rigney concludes, they must find the mother within themselves in the form of a feminist consciousness of self-worth.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780006547198
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shikasta written by Doris Lessing and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four-gated City written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: