Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer’s block....

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid....

A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era and winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them....

A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Doris Lessing\"s love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where she grew up....

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling....

The landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer’s block....

In the unconstrained atmosphere of England in the late 1960s, Harriet and David Lovatt, an upper-middle-class couple, face a frightening vicissitude. As the days\' events take a dark and ugly turn nearing apocalyptic intensity, the Lovatts\'......

\"I think my father\'s rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me\", writes Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing in this combined novella and memoir exploring the lives of her parents, each irrevocably......

Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the mid-20th century and the central masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook is the story of Anna Wulf, a young novelist with writer\'s block. Divorced, with a......

Doris Lessing, one of England\'s finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late......

From Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, one of her finest collections of short stories. Doris Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth from the complexities of relationships and the stories in this wonderful......

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 unexpec...

From Doris Lessing, \"one of the most important writers of the past hundred years\" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind’s beginnings. In the last years of his life, a Roman senator embarks on one final epic endeavor, a retelling of the history of human creation....

Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. It\'s the early 1960s and certainly \"everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds....

Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in the arms of the houseboy....