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She sent them off to the compound to rest.She served the supper and sat listening.Chapter 7, “Lessing on Generations and Freedom,” notes that while other English novelists – Lawrence, Woolf – wrote about characters mired in uncertainty about having children, none produced anything like the sequences of protracted vexation in Doris Lessing’s “Children of Violence” novels. That’s something.”Margaret roused herself, wiped her eyes, pretended she had not been crying, and fetched them some supper, for the servants were too exhausted to move. “What’s here is bad enough, isn’t it?” For although the evening air was no longer black and thick but a clear blue, with a pattern of insects whizzing this way and that across it, everything else-trees, buildings, bushes, earth-was gone under the moving brown masses.“If it doesn’t rain in the night and keep them here,” Stephen said, “if it doesn’t rain and weight them down with water, they’ll be off in the morning at sunrise.”“We’re bound to have some hoppers,” said Richard. Margaret could hear nothing but the ceaseless rustle of myriads of wings.The two men slapped off the insects and came in.“Well,” said Richard, kissing her on the cheek, “the main swarm has gone over.”“For the Lord’s sake!” said Margaret angrily, still half crying. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized Lessing’s work: the bedrock realities of marriage and other relationships between men and women the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities the fate of women.Īll of them were crawling with insects. About StoriesThis major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized Lessing’s work: the bedrock realities of marriage and other relationships between men and women the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities the fate of women.