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Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
$9.88 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the ...Show more
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
The opening 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. When we first meet Martha Quest, she is a girl of fifteen living with her parents on a poor African farm. S ...Show more
The Cleft by Doris Lessing
$24.99 AUD
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Category: 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 endea ...Show more
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records he ...Show more
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