Today there are nearly six million children under the age of five living in poverty in the world's richest country. Blanket statements such as are often tossed around in the political arena, public de
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born on the 22nd of January, 1729, eldest of ten sons of a pious and learned minister of Camenz in the Oberlausitz, who had two daughters also. As a child Lessing delighte
Dr. Lessing shows that Isaiah 56–66 is the culmination of the prophet's message condemning humanity's sin and promising the Suffering Servant, who atones for that sin, rises in majesty, and prepares a
Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories—a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer—is now back in print. This beautiful collectio
In this profoundly moving book, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines
Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins h
Lessing's Nathan the Wise from written in 1779. The setting is Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. The themes include; anti Semitism, wealth, love and duty, and the nature of God. This is an excell
