New Releases by Doris Lessing

The fifth and final volume in Doris Lessing''s visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

Science fiction. Doris Lessing''s celebrated space fiction set in an extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires.

A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country."--New York Times Book Review

Voici une évocation vivante, forte, inoubliable d''un remarquable continent, de sa puissance et de sa grandeur sauvage, de son agonie et de sa tragédie ultime.

Eighteen stories depicting the people and places of London, full of the observation and compassion characteristic of Lessing.

Doris Lessing recounts the cats that have moved and amused her, from the kittens that overran her childhood home to the wrenching decline of El Magnifico, whose story unfolds in a new essay, appearing here for the first time." "Particularly Cats also evokes Lessing''s own story in relation to cats, how they affect her and she them, communicating in a language of mood and gesture that all cat-owners will recognize.

An account of the Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

These two novels show Lessing returning to an earlier narrative style with fresh power.

Relates the story of the education of a woman, Ambien II, who is one of the extremely long-lived administrators of the Sirian Empire.

The novel takes place in three of six metaphysical Zones that encircle the planet Shikasta (an allegorical Earth), and concerns two ordained marriages that link the patriarchal and militaristic Zone Four with the matriarchal and egalitarian Zone Three, and the tribal and barbaric Zone Five. The story is told from the point of view of the matriarchal utopian Zone Three, and is about gender conflict and the breaking down of barriers between the sexes. Lessing called the Canopus in Argos series "space fiction", but The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five is generally referred to as feminist science fiction.

Doris Lessing est sans doute la romancière la plus estimée des pays anglo-saxons, et parmi ses romans, remarquables d''intelligence, de passion et d''originalité, Le Carnet d''or présente une importance toute particulière. Ce livre long, dense, foisonnant et fascinant, amalgame et articule autour d''un roman intitulé "Femmes libres" les quatre carnets du journal d''Anna, qui en est le personnage central. Quatre carnets : le noir, le rouge, le jaune et le bleu, parce qu''Anna éprouve le besoin, par crainte du chaos, de l''informe, de l''effondrement, de séparer les choses qui "font" son existence ; parce qu''elle recherche une cohérence, un ordre, un système qui la rassure. Et pourtant, des exigences, des pressions intérieures et extérieures amènent Anna à abandonner ses carnets, l''un après l''autre, à tirer un trait définitif au bas de la dernière page écrite. C''est alors que, de leurs fragments entremêlés, peut surgir quelque chose d''autre, un texte neuf : Le Carnet d''or. Reflétant les grands courants politiques, sociaux et psychologiques de notre époque, analysant avec une rare acuité les rapports entre les femmes et les hommes, Le Carnet d''or nous offre une vision extrêmement profonde et vivante, et aussi extrêmement révélatrice, de l''expérience féminine moderne.

As the world falls apart outside, the narrator watches over Emily, a young child brought into her care by a stranger. Emily is also guarded by Hugo, half cat and half dog, the bizarre and lovable beast whose presence dominates the tale.

Portrays the helpless collisions and alienations of the races in South Africa.

Collection of the best of Doris Lessing''s short stories and a couple of novellas all set in her native Africa. From Rhodesia to Kenya and such we see many different stories and perspectives. We meet colonial Boers, English farmers, native legends, native peoples, miners, scholars, women, children, men, hunters, animals -- just about everything! Her stories begin in the early part of the 1900s and as they progress into the 1950s and 1960s the political tone changes with the times without being a political narrative. The focus is on people and storytelling. Doris Lessing is known as one of the best writers in English fiction.