Doris Lessing

Under My Skin: Volume I of my Autobiography, to 1949 was the first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, covering the period of her life from birth in 1919 to leaving Southern Rhodesia in 1949. Although Lessing describes her fiction as not autobiographical, in this volume she makes explicit comparisons between …

The Four-Gated City is a novel, published in 1969, by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. It concludes the five-volume series Children of Violence, a literary achievement which took nearly twenty years. The Four-Gated City is sometimes regarded as one of Lessing's most important works. The book, which …

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 is a 1982 science fiction novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. It is the fourth book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series and relates the fate of a planet, under the care of the benevolent galactic empire Canopus, that is plunged into an ice age. It …

These two novels show Lessing returning to an earlier narrative style with fresh power.

The Sweetest Dream is a 2001 novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. The novel begins in the 1960s leading up to the 1980s and is set in London and the fictional African nation, Zimlia, a thinly veiled reference to Zimbabwe.

The Sirian Experiments este un roman științifico-fantastic scris de câștigătoarea premiului Nobel pentru literatură, Doris Lessing. Este a treia carte din seria de cinci romane Canopus in Argos și continuă povestea evoluției Pământului, care a fost manipulat de la început de către civilizații extraterestre avansate. …