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(Redirected from A Ripple from the Storm) Series of novels by Doris Lessing

The Children of Violence is a sequence of five semi-autobiographical novels by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing: Martha Quest (1952), A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965), and The Four-Gated City (1969). The novels "are strongly influenced by Lessing's rejection of a domestic family role and her involvement with communism." Lessing identified the series as a bildungsroman.

The series follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest from adolescence until her death, which takes place in the future, in the year 1997. The first four novels are set during the 1930s and 1940s, in the fictional country of Zambesia, based on the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where Lessing lived from 1925 until 1949. The fifth work, The Four-Gated City, is set in London, primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. The novel's appendix extends into a dystopian future in which Britain has become uninhabitable due to an unspecified catastrophe, speculated to be either a nuclear detonation or mass contamination from chemical weapons following a fire at Porton Down.

Books

Martha Quest (1952)
A Proper Marriage (1954)
A Ripple from the Storm (1958)
Landlocked (1965)
The Four-Gated City (1969)

References

From the dust jacket of the first edition of The Four-Gated City.
"Doris Lessing - Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
^ Lessing, Doris (1972). The four gated city. London: Panther Granada. p. 671. ISBN 0-586-03620-2. OCLC 12317219.
"Biography". www.dorislessing.org.

Works by Doris Lessing

Fiction

The Grass Is Singing The Golden Notebook Briefing for a Descent into Hell The Memoirs of a Survivor The Good Terrorist The Fifth Child Ben, in the World The Sweetest Dream The Cleft
Children of Violence series	Martha Quest A Proper Marriage A Ripple from the Storm Landlocked The Four-Gated City
Canopus in Argos series	Shikasta The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five The Sirian Experiments The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

Short stories

"Through the Tunnel"
"Flight"

Collections

Autobiography/
memoirs

Under My Skin
Alfred and Emily

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

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