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To Room Nineteen Doris Lessing

To Room Nineteen By Doris Lessing

To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing


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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories.

To Room Nineteen Summary

To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories Volume One by Doris Lessing

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 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 intelligence', to the shocking 'A Woman on the Roof', where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this superb collection of stories written over four decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s, bears stunning witness to Doris Lessing's perspective on the human condition.

To Room Nineteen Reviews

'The stories in To Room Nineteen are part of the intellectual apparatus of anybody alive in England in the Fifties. I can't begin to evaluate some of them objectively; The Habit of Loving and the dazzlingly cynical One Off The Shortlist shaped the way I, for one, perceived the world.' Angela Carter, Guardian

'A major collection - rich, perceptive and cruelly honest. For Doris Lessing, private lives, private sins and private blisses are aspects of history, so that even in short stories, she is a chronicler of her time and its conscience too.' Lorna Sage, Observer

'On sex, Doris Lessing has few equals in understanding not only desire, but the rest - boredom, disappointment, erotic fury. On every subject there is a selfless, composed quality about her writing, a special combination of indignation and compassion.' Diane Johnson, New York Times

About Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.

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GOR001415750
9780007143009
0007143001
To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories Volume One by Doris Lessing
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20020819
400
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