Martha Quest
Author | : Doris Lessing |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : Doris Lessing |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : Doris Lessing |
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Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : British |
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Author | : Doris Lessing |
Publisher | : Plume Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780452261242 |
Author | : Doris May Lessing |
Publisher | : Plume Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. "A Proper Marriage" is the second novel in Doris Lessing' s classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
Author | : Sally Robinson |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791407271 |
Viewing the novels of Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, and Gayle Jones through feminist critical theory, argues that female subjectivity is engendered by women characters engaging systems that rely on the figure of the women for coherence. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Doris Lessing |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : 0586089985 |
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. She is eager for life and resentful of the deadening narrowness of home, and escapes to take a job as a typist in the local capital. Here, in the 'big city', she encounters the real life she was so eager to know and understand. As a picture of colonial life, 'Martha Quest' succeeds by the depth of its realism alone; but always at its centre is Martha, a sympathetic figure drawn with unrelenting objectivity. Martha's Africa is Doris Lessing's Africa: the restrictive life of the farm; the atmosphere of racial fear and antagonism; the superficial sophistication of the city. And both Martha and Lessing are Children of Violence: the generation that was born of one world war and came of age in another, whose abrasive relationships with their parents, with one another, and with society are laid bare brilliantly by a writer who understands them better than any other.
Author | : Nina daVinci Nichols |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9780838635827 |
Indeed, relatively little work has been done on the Cretan myth cycle as a whole, a mixture of heroic Greek legend and savage, pre-Greek elements generally considered to be antithetical to evolved literary languages. As a result, although Ariadne has been extremely important in Western art from the time of ancient Greece through the nineteenth century, she is rarely included in studies of Greek myth.
Author | : Doris Lessing |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-12-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061991260 |
"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." — Barbara Kingsolver Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing — and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.
Author | : R. Rubenstein |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137413662 |
While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook , she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights into the ethical implications of disguised autobiography and roman à clef .
Author | : Doris Lessing |
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Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1964 |
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