Doris Lessing (6 kníh)
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Doris Lessing Muž a dvě ženy CZSoubor devatenácti povídek přináší jednak deset miniatur ze stejnojmenného českého výboru (1970), jednak přikládá devět zbylých próz původního anglického vydání. Autorce v dobách největší povídkářské slávy učarovala nejen atmosféra dospívání v krajině jihoafrických farem, ale i přehuštěný Londýn, ve kterém se zabydlela až v dospělosti. Spisovatelka získala r. 2007 Nobelovu cenu za literaturu.
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Doris Lessing The Cleft ENAn 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 ancient community of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness, confined within the valley of an overshadowing mountain. The Clefts have no need, or knowledge, of men — childbirth is controlled, like the tides…
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Doris Lessing The Grass is Singing ENThe Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years, trapped by poverty,…
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Doris Lessing The Grass is Singing ENDORIS LESSING was born in Persia in 1919 and spent her childhood on a large farm in Zimbabwe. The Grass is Singing was her first novel and was an immediate success on its publication in 1949. The Children of Violence sequence was written out of her experience of life and socialist organisation in the colony. Some of her later novels, including The Golden Notebook, haw a London background. Her short stories are…
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