About the book
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.
A Ripple from the Storm is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
Editions of Ripple From the Storm
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780060976644
- EBook
- ISBN 9780062047922
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Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.
A Ripple from the Storm is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
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What is Ripple From the Storm about?
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.
A Ripple from the Storm is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Ripple From the Storm?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Where can I read a sample of Ripple From the Storm?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780060976644
Is Ripple From the Storm part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Children of Violence
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Ripple From the Storm?
Doris Lessing
Who is the Publisher of the book Ripple From the Storm?
HarperCollins
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Ripple From the Storm is available as paperback(ISBN 9780060976644) and ebook(ISBN 9780062047922)
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