Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The classic first novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of 'The Grass is Singing' with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth-century literature. Set in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: 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 her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: « Je crois que la colère ramenée des tranchées par mon père s'est emparée de moi très tôt et ne m'a plus jamais quittée. » Parce que le poids de la Première Guerre mondiale a brisé son père, parce que l'émigration en Rhodésie a fait perdre à sa mère le goût de vivre, Doris Lessing a voulu imaginer l'existence de ses…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Traces the experiences of children from a poor inner-urban neighbourhood — half of them from Bangladeshi families — as they acquire the knowledge appropriate to their home culture and then take this knowledge to their reception class. This book shows how children succeed and fail from their early days at school.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But — a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps... Going Home is Doris Lessing's account of her first journey back to Africa, the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her emotion…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The fifth and final volume in Doris Lessings visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in the arms of the houseboy.