The Fifth Child

The Fifth Child
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 159
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0007154399
ISBN-13 : 9780007154395
Rating : 4/5 (395 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Fifth Child by : Doris Lessing

Download or read book The Fifth Child written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike, ' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world..

The Fifth Child Related Books

The Future of the Fifth Child
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Sid Gardner
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-10 - Publisher: iUniverse

GET EBOOK

The premise of this book is that 400 million childrenone in five children aliveare abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that g
The Fifth Child
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Doris Lessing
Categories: Young adult fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-03-20 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and Da
Children of the Fifth World
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: P. M. H. Atwater
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-24 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

Our species is evolving in preparation for the new world on the horizon • Explains how the increase in intuitive, creative, and abstract-thinking abilities of
Ben, In the World
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: Doris Lessing
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Harper Collins

GET EBOOK

Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength. Ben's half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly p
The Fifth Child
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Doris Lessing
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-17 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its o