Скачать книгу (размер 2 926 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 575) Аннотация: Роман «Великие мечты» представляет собой эпохальное полотно, рассказывающее о жизни трех поколений англичан. Автор затрагивает множество проблем: положение женщин в современном мире, национально-освободительное движение в Африке, борьба со СПИДом. Великие мечты, будь то победа коммунизма на всей планете или создание вакцины от смертельной болезни, зачастую остаются всего лишь красивыми иллюзиями,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth-century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction 2007. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become involved in terrorist activities far beyond…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 391 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 274) Аннотация: »I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me», writes Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing in this combined novella and memoir exploring the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 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 endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the mid-20th century and the central masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook is the story of Anna Wulf, a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. Fearing the onset of madness, she records her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best of several decades' worth of occasional writings from perhaps the best-loved and most-admired of Britain's great female writers. A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays, never before collected together and published in book form. Articles on writers as diverse as Jane Austen, Muriel Spark, Virginia Woolf, D.H.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The title story, ‘The Grandmothers’, is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and the lengths to which they will go to find happiness and love. Written with a keen cinematic…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: »Hunger nach dem großen Leben» ist ein Stück afrikanischer Geschichte. Was sonst als weltpolitische Schlagzeile aus der dritten Welt zu uns kommt, wird hier konkret, sinnfällig und eindringlich am Schicksal eines afrikanischen Jungen erfahrbar: die Übermacht der aufgesetzten kolonialen Zivilisation, errichtet auf den Trümmern zerstörter, jahrtausendealter…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: An extraordinary blend of fantasy and realism, this is classic Lessing. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London’s Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird. Identified as Charles Walker, a Cambridge…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on in one of her most involving, most personal, most political novels. It’s the morning of the 1960s and it’s suppertime at Freedom Hall, the most welcoming household in North London. Frances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing another feast to readiness before ladling it out to the youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table – here…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: First published by Michael Joseph in 1984, under a pseudonym, as ‘The Diary of a Good Neighbour’ and ‘If the Old Could…’, now published as ‘The Diaries of Jane Somers’, this is in many ways classic Lessing. As resonant with social and political themes as ‘The Golden Notebook’, Lessing returns to the realism of her early fiction with the wisdom and experience of maturity. The diaries introduce us…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, a collection of some of her finest short stories. For more than four decades, Doris Lessing’s work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in her unflinching dissection of the everyday. From the magnificent ‘To Room Nineteen’, a study of a dry, controlled middle-class marriage ‘grounded in…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A sequel to one of Lessing’s most celebrated novels, ‘The Fifth Child’. Many will recall the powerful impact ‘The Fifth Child’, Doris Lessing’s 1988 novel, made on publication. Its account of idyllic marital and parental bliss irredeemably shattered by the arrival of the feral fifth child of the Lovatts made for unnerving and compulsive reading. That child, Ben, now grown to legal maturity, is…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A classic tale from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness'. Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. It is sooner than you might think. And the earth’s climate is much changed – it’s colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home… They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A fierce, compelling account of the nature and origins of love from Doris Lessing, one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth-century and Winner of the Nobel Pize for Literature 2007. Sarah Durham, sixty-year-old producer and founder of a leading fringe theatre company, commissions a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon, a beautiful, wayward nineteenth-century mulatto woman. It…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The first 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 novels are «A Proper Marriage», «A Ripple from the Storm», «Landlocked» and «The Four-Gated City».