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‘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
‘The “Children of Violence” series gives an astounding compression of a total, coherent vision, as if Doris Lessing knew all along where it would end.’ The Times
'SHE LOOKED ACROSS THE FIELD TO THE DUMFRIES HILLS AND RE-FASHIONED THAT UNUSED COUNTRY TO THE SCALE OF HER IMAGINATION. THERE AROSE, OVER THE HARSH SCRUB AND THE STUNTED TREES, A NOBLE CITY, SET FOURSQUARE AND COLONNADED, ITS CITIZENS GRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL, BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER.'
The 'Children of Violence' series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing as a great radical writer. In this first volume, Martha, the young rebellious daughter of a white family, finds her coming of age to be a great struggle for freedom and recognition. Intelligent and deeply compassionate, she sees the unpalatable political and social realities of her world with an extraordinary clarity. Martha's vision of a just society takes her beyond the impoverished and rigid farming community to the city – an ill-matched marriage her means of escape...
“Stubborn, resilient, wry towards herself, Martha is Doris Lessing's most satisfying and complex characterisation. She is a child of her times, of violence, who "could no more dissociate herself from the violence done by her than a tadpole can live out of water"”
THE TIMES
“With deceptive simplicity, Doris Lessing reveals more about the private depths of the mind and soul than perhaps one ought to know”
DAILY TELEGRAPH
“'Martha Quest' is a deeply felt and powerfully written account of a modern woman's progress.”
SUNDAY TIMES
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Book Description Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 38489468-20
Book Description Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. price not clipped. Seller Inventory # 012002
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. book. Seller Inventory # ERICA79102461090684
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. 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). Seller Inventory # 003039