- Doris Lessing

In Pursuit of the English

By Doris Lessing
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By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

In 1949, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail – a life of glamour and refinement that she naively believed England offered everyone. A fascinating, hilarious memoir of her first impressions of her adopted country, ‘In Pursuit of the English’ brilliantly captures Lessing’s constant wonder at and growing affection for the people she came to know: the working-class of the East End of London. Lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded, they were quite unlike the English she had expected to find …

Author: Doris Lessing
Format: ebook
Release Date: 31 May 2012
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-738167-8
Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, \'The Grass is Singing\', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are \'The Golden Notebook\', \'The Fifth Child\' and \'Memoirs of a Survivor\'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, \'Under my Skin\' and \'Walking in the Shade\'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.

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