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Children of Violence Set

Format: Paperback

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Over seventeen years, from 1952 to 1969, Doris Lessing wrote a series of five novels under the title “Children of Violence.” In them, she chronicles the life of Martha Quest: an adolescent who scorns her parents’ Victorian principles, through a young woman’s two failed marriages and a flirtation with Communism, to an independent woman who tries to live actively rather than passively. Lessing, in her essay “A Small Personal Voice,” states that the overriding question addressed in each of the five novels is: “What is due to the collective and what to the individual conscience.” Thus, the novels them selves, as well as Martha, move constantly between these two poles

Author: Doris Lessing (all their books in stock)
Genre: Fiction, Literary
Format: Paperback
Published: 1986
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780586041734

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