Collected Stories to Room Nineteen - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007143001 ISBN 13: 9780007143009

Publisher: Flamingo, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher

Includes a previously uncollected story and a new preface by the author.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Flamingo
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0007143001
• ISBN 13: 9780007143009
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400