Doris Lessing

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

O Quinto Filho é um romance de Doris Lessing publicado em 1988 e traduzido por Luís Carlos do Nascimento Silva para a Editora Record. O livro é ficcional e sociológico, exibindo uma família inglesa feliz e comum, onde o casal David e Harriet sonha sua vida conjugal com muitos filhos e fartura. O drama se inicia com a …

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 …

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine reviles part …

The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels is collection of four short stories published in 2003 by 2007 Nobel laureate Doris Lessing. The 2013 Australian-French film Adore is based on the story The Grandmothers.