The Four-Gated City

first publication date:  1969
genre:  Bildungsroman
original title:  The Four-Gated City
original language:  English
narrative location:  London

The Four-Gated City, published in 1969, is the concluding novel in British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing's five-volume, semi-autobiographical series The Children of Violence, which she began, in 1952, with Martha Quest. In The Four-Gated City Lessing moves the setting from Zambesia, a fictionalized version of Southern Rhodesia, to London. Martha "is integrally part of the social history of the time - the Cold War, the Aldermaston Marches, Swinging London, the deepening of poverty and social anarchy." The novel extends into science fiction, depicting a dystopian future following the destruction of Britain. When published it created a stir with claims that it promoted communism. The Four-Gated City is one of Lessing's most important works. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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