The Four-Gated City (Children of Violence Series #5)

by Doris Lessing

Overview

Dorris Lessing's classic series of autobiographical novels is the fictional counterpart to Under My Skin. In these five novels, first published in the 1950's and 60s, Doris Lessing transformed her fascinating life into fiction, creating her most complex and compelling character, Martha Quest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062047946
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/19/2010
Series:	Children of Violence Series , #5
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	672
Sales rank:	302,250
File size:	3 MB

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.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

October 22, 1919

Place of Birth:

Persia (now Iran)

What People are Saying About This

Barbara Kingsolver

"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."

Joyce Carol Oates

"A powerful, prophetic, mysterious work, a truly extraordinary novel....The insanity of the 20th century...[and] the mystery of the self, explored brilliantly here as it is in her other masterpiece The Golden Notebook....Here is a book not to be read, but experienced."

Editorial Reviews

This work will rank with the foremost fictional commentaries on events in our century.

Milwaukee Journal

A powerful, prophetic, mysterious work, a truly extraordinary novel....The insanity of the 20th century...[and] the mystery of the self, explored brilliantly here as it is in her other masterpiece The Golden Notebook....Here is a book not to be read, but experienced.

Joyce Carol Oates

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