The Four-Gated City Format: Paperback

Lessing, Doris M.

ISBN 10: 0060976675 / ISBN 13: 9780060976675

Published by Harper Collins Publishers, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Four-Gated City Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060976675
• ISBN 13: 9780060976675
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." — Barbara Kingsolver

The Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, as a great radical writer. 

In this, the fifth and final volume, Marth, now middle-aged, leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new 'children of violence', grow up in a disintegrating world, a world careering toward nuclear disaster.

About the Author

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.