Doris Lessing (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Dubbed an iconoclast, Doris Lessing experimented with radical change. Her fiction shifted between realistic, mystical, and science fiction, and achieved a statement of political and social consequence with each book. Study Lessing's work through some of the most respected criticism on the subject. This title, Doris Lessing, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Doris Lessing through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Doris Lessing, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.