num_pages: 228
description: In Pursuit of the English is a first-class novelist's account of the 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 real English.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 makes a permanent addition to writing about the English.
language: English
title: In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
titlecomplete: In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
genres: British Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Essays, Autobiography, Nobel Prize
ratings_count: 270
publisher: Harper Perennial