Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library - Stories | doris lessing

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• Included are seminal stories like 'To Room Nineteen'
• In which a woman reacts against the oppression of her banal marriage with dreadful results
• 'One off the Short List'
• Which traces the surprising conclusion to a seduction gone awry
• And 'The Habit of Loving' in which a lonely older man who takes a vivacious young wife witnesses an unexpected reversal of intimacy
• Here also are two classic novellas
• The Temptation of Jack Orkney and The Other Woman
• Exemplifying Lessing's impressive understanding of human psychology
• Rich and various in mood and background the settings range across England and France these stories powerfully convey the uncompromising insight
• Intelligence and vision of one of the most ardently admired writers of our time