Martha Quest ( Children of Violence ) (edit title)

James F edited the characters of Martha Quest ( Children of Violence ) Monday, September 21 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Martha Quest

Shelfari edited the description of Martha Quest ( Children of Violence ) Saturday, August 8 2009.

• Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood.She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Martha Quest ( Children of Violence ) Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Doris Lessing: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Martha Quest ( Children of Violence ) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• "As of the ladies, they sometimes allowed their eyes to rest on the girl with that glazed look which excludes a third person, or even dropped their voices; and at these moments, she lifted her head to give them a glare of positive contempt; for they were se"