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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, [1] which she began, in 1952, with Martha Quest. In The Four-Gated City Lessing moves the setting from Zambesia, a fictionalized version of Southern Rhodesia ...
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Termino The four gated city, la extraordinaria descripción que Doris Lessing hace de la evolución de Londres desde la posguerra mundial hasta 1969, año de publicación de la novela … pero con sorpresa final en forma de anticipo en clave de ciencia ficción de lo que acaecerá a nuestro mundo hasta 1997.
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Aug 19, 1996 · ISBN: 9780586090039. Number of pages: 672. Weight: 439 g. Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 40 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS. Buy The Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Sep 1, 1995 · The four-gated city of the title could be London, as it was a world into itself, trying to come to grips with recuperation. However, I think the title is also an allusion to the Coldridge house on Radlett Street, as 95% of the book happens within those four walls that challenges, enlightens, and stymies our Martha.
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May 31, 2012 · In Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City, readers experience the shocking change in collective awareness and attitudes that occurred between 1950 and 1969. Expectations about families, about men and women, old and young, sexuality, politics, psychiatry, technology, ecology, and consciousness itself, all transformed so completely that it was a giddy, disorienting time to live through.
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May 31, 2012 · The Four-Gated City. The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. ‘The Four-Gated City’ finds Martha Quest in 1950s London and very much part of the social history of the time ...
