THE ITEM:
"THE FOUR-GATED CITY"
The Four-Gated City, published in 1969, is the concluding novel in British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing's five-volume, semi-autobiographical series The Children of Violence, which she began, in 1952, with Martha Quest. The series Children of Violence follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest, from age fifteen in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, through adolescence and a marriage shaped by the Second World War. In The Four-Gated City Lessing moves the setting from Zambezia, a fictionalized version of Southern Rhodesia and South Africa, to London, and this novel has a science fiction, dystopian ending, with Martha dying in 1997.
When published it created a stir with claims that it promoted communism. The Four-Gated City is one of Lessing's most important works.
(WIKIPEDIA)
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THE WRITER:
DORIS LESSING
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
(WIKIPEDIA)
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THE PUBLISHER:
BANTAM BOOKS
THE YEAR:
1970
5th PRINTING
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SIZED:
CENTIMETERS: 10,5 X 17,7
PAGES: 662
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CONDITION
GENERAL:
REASONABLE TO GOOD
COVER:
RUBBED, DIRTY AND DISCOLOURED, SOME BUMPS AND LIGHTLY CRACKED BENDS
SPINE:
IDEM
PAGES:
DISCOLOURED, HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE
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