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In Pursuit of the English : A Documentary by Lessing, Doris is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is In Pursuit of the English : A Documentary about?
<p><b>In Pursuit of the English</b> is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you've probably never met or even read about—though they are the <b>real</b> English. The cast of characters—if that term can be applied to real people—includes: Bobby Brent, a con man; Mrs. Skeffington, a genteel woman who bullies her small child and flings herself down two flights of stairs to avoid having another; and Miss Priest, a prostitute, who replies to Lessing's question "Don't you ever like sex?" with "If you're going to talk dirty, I'm not interested."</p> <p> In swift, barbed style, in high, hard, farcical writing that is eruptively funny, Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that is a brilliantpiece of cultural interpretation, an intriguing memoir and a thoroughly engaging read.</p>
Who reads In Pursuit of the English : A Documentary?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062034885
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.78 / 5 (155 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
