The first book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other novels are "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm", "Landlocked" and "The Four-Gated City".
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Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.
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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine/Very Good. First Edition Thus, 2nd Printing. Martha Quest was first published in 1952, then in a double volume with 'A Proper Marriage 'in 1965. Published on its own by Granada in 1977. This is the 1983 reprinting. This title is the first novel of Lessing's five-novel sequence - The Children of Violence. It traces the life of Martha Quest. 335 pp. Grey boards have green author's box and gilt text on spine. Price clipped DJ has yellowing at top edge. Book is from the collection of Toronto author/poet and, not infrequently, host at Harbourfront literary events, Greg Gatenby. His signature and the year of this book's acquisition are found ffep. " Greg - Doris L. October 1991." Bookseller's Inventory # 123039. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 003039
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