To Room Nineteen - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006548067 ISBN 13: 9780006548065

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 1994

Synopsis

Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited; New Ed edition (1994) Language: English

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

`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 this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0006548067
• ISBN 13: 9780006548065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384