num_pages: 336
description: Martha Quest is a passionate and intelligent young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood to marriage. She is a romantic idealist in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct bared to experience. For her, this is a time of solidarity reading, daydreams, dancing--and the first disturbing encounters with sex. Martha Quest is the first novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive, all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Martha Quest
titlecomplete: Martha Quest
characters: Martha Quest
genres: Literature, Classics, Novels, Zimbabwe, Coming Of Age, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Africa, British Literature
ratings_count: 2438
places: United Kingdom
series: Children of Violence
publisher: HarpPeren