In Pursuit Of The English

By Doris Lessing

Book Overview

In Pursuit of the English 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007EDC0O
• ISBN13: 9780246110428
• Release Date: August 1977
• Publisher: Granada
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.

Customer Reviews

warm working-class reception...or something

This little book is a gem in every way. Lessing's loving account of how she got along when she first came to London/England is warm, witty, funny and written with an admirable insight into the minds of people she met. It is never less than very good, and it digs deeply into "the English character", if there is such a thing...