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Stories

Introduction by Margaret Drabble

By Doris Lessing

By Doris Lessing

By Doris Lessing
Introduction by Margaret Drabble

By Doris Lessing
Introduction by Margaret Drabble

By Doris Lessing

By Doris Lessing

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Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.95

Mar 12, 1980 | ISBN 9780394742496

Hardcover $26.00

Sep 02, 2008 | ISBN 9780307269881

Ebook $11.99

Feb 10, 2010 | ISBN 9780307434623

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    About Stories

    This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized Lessing’s work: the bedrock realities of marriage and other relationships between men and women; the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities; the fate of women.

    About Stories

    This wide-ranging collection of the stories by the renowned Nobel Laureate—spanning more than two decades of her astonishing career—highlights her singular gifts for portraying the complex lives of men and women in a modern, often alienating world.

     

    Included are seminal stories like “To Room Nineteen,” in which a woman reacts against the oppression of her banal marriage with dreadful results; “One off the Short List,” which traces the surprising conclusion to a seduction gone awry; “The Habit of Loving,” in which a lonely older man who takes a vivacious, young wife witnesses an unexpected reversal of intimacy. Here are two classic novellas as well: The Temptation of Jack Orkney and The Other Woman, which exemplify Lessing’s grasp of the most essential human psychology. Rich and various in mood and background—the settings range across England and France—these stories powerfully convey the uncompromising insight, intelligence, and vision of one of the most ardently admired writers of our time.

    About Stories

    This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized Lessing’s work: the bedrock realities of marriage and other relationships between men and women; the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities; the fate of women.

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    About Doris Lessing

    Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the… More about Doris Lessing

    About Doris Lessing

    Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the… More about Doris Lessing

    About Doris Lessing

    Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the… More about Doris Lessing

    Product Details

    Category: Women’s Fiction | Romance

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 12, 1980 | 640 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780394742496

    Category: Fiction Classics | Women’s Fiction | Romance

    Hardcover | $26.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Sep 02, 2008 | 696 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8-1/8 | ISBN 9780307269881

    Category: Women’s Fiction | Romance

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 10, 2010 | 640 Pages | ISBN 9780307434623
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    Praise

    “Lessing is the great realist writer of our time.” —Diane Johnson, The New York Times Book Review

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 2007

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction by Margaret Drabble
    Select Bibliography
    Chronology

    The Habit of Loving
    The Woman
    Through the Tunnel
    Pleasure
    The Witness
    The Day Stalin Died
    Wine
    He
    The Eye of God in Paradise
    The Other Woman
    One off the Short List
    A Woman on a Roof
    How I Finally Lost My Heart
    A Man and Two Women
    A Room
    England versus England
    Two Potters
    Between Men
    Our Friend Judith
    Each Other
    Homage for Isaac Babel
    Outside the Ministry
    Dialogue
    Notes for a Case History
    An Old Woman and Her Cat
    Side Benefits of an Honourable Profession
    A Year in Regent’s Park
    Report on the Threatened City
    Mrs Fortescue
    An Unposted Love Letter
    Lions, Leaves, Roses
    Not a Very Nice Story
    The Other Garden
    The Temptation of Jack Orkney

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