The Four-Gated City
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тАШThe Four-Gated CityтАЩ finds Martha Quest in 1950s London and very much part of the social history of the time: the Cold War, the anti-nuclear Aldermaston Marches, Swinging London, the deepening of poverty and social anarchy. Daring to go a step further тАУ as Lessing so often has in her career тАУ the novel ends with the century in the throes of World War Three.
In the four previous novels of the тАШChildren of ViolenceтАЩ series, Lessing explored the end of an epoch. Here she trains her gaze on the present тАУ and the future. The disquieting power of her vision revealed across this series finds its culmination in this brave and visionary work.
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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.
