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Doris Lessing (1919–2013)

Autor(a) de The Golden Notebook

309+ Works 33,219 Membros 684 Críticas 126 Favorited

About the Author

Doris Lessing was born in Kermanshah, Persia (later Iran) on October 22, 1919 and grew up in Rhodesia (the present-day Zimbabwe). During her two marriages, she submitted short fiction and poetry for publication. After moving to London in 1949, she published her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, in mostrar mais 1950. She is best known for her 1954 Somerset Maugham Award-winning experimental novel The Golden Notebook. Her other works include This Was the Old Chief's Country, the Children of Violence series, the Canopus in Argos - Archives series, and Alfred and Emily. She has received numerous awards for her work including the 2001 Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature, the David Cohen British Literature Prize, and the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. She died on November 17, 2013 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por Doris Lessing

The Golden Notebook (1962) 5,293 exemplares
The Fifth Child (1988) 2,349 exemplares
The Grass Is Singing (1950) 2,167 exemplares
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (1979) 1,301 exemplares
The Good Terrorist (1985) 1,231 exemplares
The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) 1,165 exemplares
Martha Quest (1952) 1,041 exemplares
The Summer Before The Dark (1973) 1,032 exemplares
Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) 921 exemplares
The Cleft (2007) 731 exemplares
A Proper Marriage (1954) 698 exemplares
The Four-Gated City (1969) 678 exemplares
Love, Again (1995) 665 exemplares
The Sweetest Dream (2001) 621 exemplares
Mara and Dann (1999) 592 exemplares
The Diaries of Jane Somers (1983) 535 exemplares
A Ripple from the Storm (1958) 495 exemplares
Landlocked (1965) 466 exemplares
Alfred and Emily (2008) 444 exemplares
Ben, in the World (2000) 415 exemplares
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (1987) 414 exemplares
Stories (1978) 354 exemplares
Particularly Cats (1967) 331 exemplares
African Stories (1964) 293 exemplares
On Cats (2002) 280 exemplares
The Habit of Loving (1957) 250 exemplares
A Man and Two Women (1963) 240 exemplares
Time Bites: Views and Reviews (2004) 235 exemplares
In Pursuit of the English (1960) 225 exemplares
Going Home (1957) 171 exemplares
To Room Nineteen (1953) 153 exemplares
Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979) 144 exemplares
Five (1953) 138 exemplares
The Black Madonna (1964) 108 exemplares
Winter in July (1951) 94 exemplares
Ecclesiastes (Pocket Canon) (1998) — Introdução, algumas edições83 exemplares
If the Old Could (1984) 83 exemplares
A Small Personal Voice (1994) 81 exemplares
The Diary of a Good neighbour (1983) 80 exemplares
The Doris Lessing Reader (1988) 72 exemplares
Adore: A Novella (P.S.) (2013) 58 exemplares
Particularly Cats ... And Rufus (1993) 56 exemplares
Children of Violence: Books 1-5 (1966) 43 exemplares
The Golden Notebook, book 1 (1962) 39 exemplares
The Golden Notebook, book 2 (1975) 37 exemplares
The Old Age of El Magnifico (2000) 36 exemplares
The Other Woman (1953) 34 exemplares
The Pit (1996) 28 exemplares
Through the Tunnel (1955) 23 exemplares
New English Dramatists 1 (1959) 20 exemplares
Putting the Questions Differently (1996) 19 exemplares
Honger (1953) 16 exemplares
Recitatif / To Room Nineteen (2010) 16 exemplares
Retreat to innocence (1956) 16 exemplares
Children of Violence: Books 1-2 (1964) 15 exemplares
Play with a Tiger (1962) 15 exemplares
Playing the Game (1995) 15 exemplares
Victoria et les Staveney (2010) 13 exemplares
An Old Woman and Her Cat (1972) 12 exemplares
Modern Short Stories 2: 1940-1980 (1982) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
21 noveller (1986) 11 exemplares
Eldorado (1953) 11 exemplares
Gatos ilustres (Spanish Edition) (2014) 10 exemplares
Filles impertinentes (2014) 10 exemplares
The Day Stalin Died (1957) 9 exemplares
Pleasure (1957) 9 exemplares
Das Leben meiner Mutter (1988) 9 exemplares
Adoration [2013 film] (2013) — Original book — 8 exemplares
On Not Winning the Nobel Prize (2008) 8 exemplares
Äkta vara : noveller (1991) 8 exemplares
19 noveller (1975) 7 exemplares
How I Finally Lost My Heart (1953) 7 exemplares
Kedilere Dair (2017) 7 exemplares
Children of Violence: Books 3-4 (1966) 7 exemplares
Tangled Web (2007) 7 exemplares
La costumbre de amar (1900) 5 exemplares
Al final de la tormenta (1980) 5 exemplares
Berättelsen om två hundar (1953) 5 exemplares
The Old Chief Mshlanga (1951) 5 exemplares
Den femte sanningen. D. 1 (1975) 5 exemplares
Złoty notes (2009) 4 exemplares
Essential Doris Lessing (2007) 4 exemplares
Gene Aşk (1997) 4 exemplares
Anilar (2014) 4 exemplares
Between Men (1953) 4 exemplares
Heyne Jahresband 1994 (1994) 4 exemplares
Històries de Londres (1996) 4 exemplares
Bericht Uber Die Bedrohte Stadt (1991) 4 exemplares
Il senso della memoria (2006) 3 exemplares
De nuevo, el amor (2008) 3 exemplares
Vanaemad LRK 38/2012 3 exemplares
Buyukanneler (2008) 3 exemplares
Three Stories (1963) 3 exemplares
Doris Lessing 3 exemplares
Our Friend Judith (1953) 3 exemplares
Si la vejez pudiera (1988) 3 exemplares
El último verano de Mrs. Brown (1984) 3 exemplares
Cerco de tierra 2 exemplares
A home for the Highland cattle (1953) 2 exemplares
Passerotti (2010) 2 exemplares
O verão antes da queda (1997) 2 exemplares
Der Ameisenhügel (2012) 2 exemplares
Tra donne 2 exemplares
Dintre meu (1997) 2 exemplares
Den femte sanningen. D. 2 (1975) 2 exemplares
Belarra kantari (2008) 2 exemplares
Report on the threatened city (2013) 2 exemplares
On Dokuz Numarali Oda (2015) 2 exemplares
Povestiri africane (2008) 2 exemplares
quinto hijo el-bol (2013) 2 exemplares
Le temps mord (French Edition) (2011) 2 exemplares
One of the Short List (1953) 2 exemplares
Mrs. Fortescue (1972) 2 exemplares
Avgrunnen : og andre noveller (1992) 2 exemplares
Each Other [short fiction] (1953) 2 exemplares
EL QUINTO HIJO (2000) 1 exemplar
Londonske skice (2009) 1 exemplar
A posebno, macke (2007) 1 exemplar
Ljeto prije sutona 1 exemplar
Kærlighedens teater (1999) 1 exemplar
ALTIN DEFTER (2015) 1 exemplar
O Caderno Dourado (2009) 1 exemplar
Lähimmäinen (1987) 1 exemplar
Sem título 1 exemplar
Liebesgeschichten (1992) 1 exemplar
SERISH DASHURI 1 exemplar
ME E EMBLA ENDERR 1 exemplar
Francois Mauriac 1 exemplar
Karleksbarnet 1 exemplar
Tráva zpívá 1 exemplar
Wine [short fiction] (1957) 1 exemplar
He [short fiction] (1957) 1 exemplar
Two Potters [short fiction] (1953) 1 exemplar
The Woman [short fiction] (1957) 1 exemplar
A Room [short fiction] (1953) 1 exemplar
Dialogue [short fiction] (1953) 1 exemplar
Kjighetens teater : roman (1996) 1 exemplar
Innestengt (1982) 1 exemplar
Tage am Strand Erzählung (2013) 1 exemplar
Tage am Strand (2014) 1 exemplar
Jane Somers (1992) 1 exemplar
The reason for it 1 exemplar
A love child 1 exemplar
Traitors [short fiction] (1964) 1 exemplar
Mitra 1 exemplar
Prediker (1999) 1 exemplar
In pursuit of love 1 exemplar
The Pig [short fiction] (1964) 1 exemplar
The Nuisance [short fiction] (1951) 1 exemplar
Veðraþytur 1 exemplar
Eldorada [short fiction] (1953) 1 exemplar
Little Tembi [short fiction] (1951) 1 exemplar
The New Man [short fiction] (1963) 1 exemplar
Lucy Grange [short fiction] (1957) 1 exemplar
Flight [short fiction] (1957) 1 exemplar
Cehenneme Inis Talimatnamesi (2020) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Pride and Prejudice (1813) — Introdução, algumas edições78,399 exemplares
O Amante de Lady Chatterley (1960) — Introdução, algumas edições13,337 exemplares
The Mandarins (1956) — Introdução, algumas edições1,707 exemplares
The Man Who Loved Children (1940) — Introdução, algumas edições1,418 exemplares
Last and First Men (1930) — Posfácio, algumas edições1,397 exemplares
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições904 exemplares
The Fatal Eggs (1925) — Prefácio, algumas edições725 exemplares
The Slaves of Solitude (1947) — Introdução, algumas edições690 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 504 exemplares
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1988) — Prefácio, algumas edições470 exemplares
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 454 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 423 exemplares
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contribuidor — 361 exemplares
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contribuidor — 247 exemplares
Granta 65: London (1999) — Contribuidor — 218 exemplares
Granta 77: What We Think of America (2002) — Contribuidor — 215 exemplares
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 208 exemplares
The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Contribuidor — 186 exemplares
Granta 90: Country Life (2005) — Contribuidor — 159 exemplares
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contribuidor — 157 exemplares
Granta 58: Ambition (1997) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
Stories of the Sea (2010) — Contribuidor — 133 exemplares
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998) — Contribuidor — 128 exemplares
Granta 22: With Your Tongue Down My Throat (1987) — Contribuidor — 127 exemplares
Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa (1988) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (1998) — Contribuidor — 118 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contribuidor — 115 exemplares
The Gates of Paradise (1993) — Contribuidor — 112 exemplares
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Contribuidor, algumas edições98 exemplares
Cat Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
Kalila and Dimna: Selected Fables of Bidpai (1980) — Introdução, algumas edições88 exemplares
The Granta Book of the Family (1995) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 81 exemplares
Granta 17: While Waiting for a War (1985) — Contribuidor — 80 exemplares
Adventure Stories (1988) — Contribuidor — 80 exemplares
Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa (1983) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
Granta 14: Autobiography (1984) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
Granta 13: After the Revolution (1984) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
The Picador Book of Journeys (2001) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
The Essential Cat (1985) — Prefácio, algumas edições49 exemplares
The Tale of the Four Dervishes and Other Sufi Tales (1976) — Introdução, algumas edições36 exemplares
Partisan Review (1998) — Contribuidor, algumas edições33 exemplares
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Beach : Stories by the Sand and Sea (2000) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes (2021) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Plays of the 60s: v. 1 (Piper) (1966) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
La Bible (1990) — Prefácio — 25 exemplares
Dusky Ruth and Other Stories (1974) — Introdução — 22 exemplares
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
AQA Anthology (2002) — Autor, algumas edições19 exemplares
Love Stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
An African Quilt: 24 Modern African Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Good Housekeeping Short Story Collection (1997) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Virtually Now: Stories of Science, Technology, and the Future (1996) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Favorite Animal Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Women Writing: An Anthology (1979) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Inside Stories I (1987) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Mooi verhaal ... : een verrassende bundel zomerse verhalen (1996) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection (2008) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Goed verteld : een verrassende bundel internationale verhalen (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Modern Short Stories in English (Literature for Life) (1993) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Zärtliche Blüten der Lust: Erotische Erzählungen. (1993) — Autor — 2 exemplares
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
After the Fair and Other Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Even op verhaal komen — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Membros

Discussions

Doris Lessing em Legacy Libraries (Fevereiro 2017)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - SEPTEMBER 2016 - LESSING & LEE em 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Dezembro 2016)
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) em Science Fiction Fans (Novembro 2013)
1001 Group Read-July, 2012: The Golden Notebook em 1001 Books to read before you die (Fevereiro 2013)

Críticas

3.5 stars because of its originality but this is really hard to read and understand. Even now having read the book, I am not sure if I grasped the book's meaning.
½
 
Assinalado
siok | 90 outras críticas | Nov 26, 2023 |
i live in zimbabwe born and bred here 70 years ago
doris's observations of the first half of her autobiography are before my time but tie up with the stories of my parents
so refreshing to read them from the horse's mouth
so honest
almost painfully honest
thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it
i will take a breather before tackling the second part
 
Assinalado
nankuo | 12 outras críticas | Nov 17, 2023 |
La grieta
Doris Lessing
Publicado: 2007 | 148 páginas
Novela Otros

Imaginen una costa escarpada, donde las olas del mar lamen unas rocas antiguas; ahí, tendidas entre el agua y la piedra, yacen unas hembras que nunca han conocido varón. Tienen su propio lenguaje y sus ritos ancestrales, pero viven en un mundo sin tiempo, sin dueño, y es la luna quien las fecunda. Dejemos ahora que una de ellas se aleje de la costa y se adentre en un valle hasta descubrir a unos seres extraños, parecidos a las hembras pero con el pecho liso y un pedazo de carne en forma de blando punzón bailando entre las piernas…

Así es como un patricio romano intenta describir los primeros días de vida en la tierra, una época de la que le han llegado unos pocos testimonios deslavazados. El hombre se pregunta cómo aprendieron a convivir nuestros ancestros e imagina sus primeros encuentros, las peleas, los reproches, el deseo de tocar y penetrar cuerpos nuevos, hasta llegar a ese primer gesto de ternura que nos definió para siempre como seres humanos.

Con delicadeza e ironía, Doris Lessing cuenta cuál fue el origen de esa gran aventura que ahora nos tiene a todos, hombres y mujeres, atados a la vida. Ahí donde la ciencia no llega, el talento de una maestra abre caminos.

«Nadie sabe describir las relaciones humanas con tan asombrosa belleza.»

The Times
… (mais)
 
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libreriarofer | 33 outras críticas | Nov 15, 2023 |
An interesting, engaging story, with lots of relevance for today as we continue to ignore the signs of climate change. The ending is too tidy and there are no hints of how we might approach our environmental crisis differently, but the book still captivated me.
 
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lschiff | 21 outras críticas | Sep 24, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
309
Also by
76
Membros
33,219
Popularidade
#579
Avaliação
4.2
Críticas
684
ISBN
1,596
Línguas
30
Marcado como favorito
126

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