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…
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 1 462 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 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 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».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The third in Doris Lessing s visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives . It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.