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The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)
Doris Lessing
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February 3, 1999
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Much to its author's chagrin, The Golden Notebook instantly became a staple of the feminist movement when it was published in 1962. Doris Lessing's novel deconstructs the life of Anna Wulf, a sometime-Communist and a deeply leftist writer living in postwar London with her small daughter. Anna ...
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The Grass Is Singing: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
Doris May Lessing
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December 22, 1999
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"An extremely mature psychological study. [The Grass Is Singing] is full of touches of truth seldom mentioned but instantly recognized. By any standards, this, book shows remarkable powers and imagination."...
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The Cleft: A Novel
Doris May Lessing
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July 31, 2007
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Eminent novelist Lessing offers an alternative origin story for the human race, indirectly recalling the alternate world speculations of her ...
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Stories
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March 12, 1980
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“Doris Lessing’s artistry is demonstrated over and over in this generous collection.” –Time“Lessing is the great realist writer of our time.” –Diane Johnson, The New York Times Book Review“[Lessing’s] stock of reliable, solid information about life is enormous; her social range…impressively wide; her interests, human, varied, oddly reassuring.” –Margaret ...
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
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November 14, 1987
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The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in, and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know....
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The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing
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May 14, 1989
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The married couple in this novel pull off a remarkable achievement: They purchase a three-story house with oodles of bedrooms, and, on a middle-class income, in the '70s, fill it to the brim with happy children and visiting relatives. Their holiday gatheri...
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Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 (George Sherban Emissary)
Doris Lessing
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August 12, 1981
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Review
“An audacious and disturbing work from one of the world’s great living writers.” –Paul Gray, Time“A stunning book…. Read it, read Lessing like a message of hope in dark times…read her for a winter’s evening entertainment; read her to nourish your soul.” –Frank Pierson, Los Angeles Times“If the subsequent ...
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The Summer Before the Dark
Doris Lessing
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March 12, 1983
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A splendid and serious novel that reminds one once again of just how much the fictive imagination can order and enrich experience. --National ObserverLessing's prose has the nervous intensity and quick, impressionistic lightness of some of D. H. Lawrence's later work. We are caught up in a rush of ...
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Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
Doris Lessing
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January 23, 2001
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New York Times Book Review
"There are many notable descriptions of adolescent boys and young men in our fiction. There are very few, in the same deep and radical sense, of young women. Mrs. Lessing's study of Martha Quest is one of them." ...
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Mara and Dann: An Adventure
Doris Lessing
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December 22, 1999
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Question: What do Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear and Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann have in common? Answer: an ice age. Not the same ice age, of course--Auel's series of prehistoric adventures took place 35,000 years ago, during the last global freeze; Lessing's tale, on the other ...
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962
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September 23, 1998
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More casually written and organized than Under My Skin, the second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography boasts the same acute, brutally frank insights. She begins with her 1949 arrival in London as a 30-year-old single mother from Rhodesia who is searching for a place and a means to write ...
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The Sweetest Dream: A Novel
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December 24, 2002
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The motivating power of dream and the political price of illusions are the subject of Doris Lessing's extended family saga, ...
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The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
Doris May Lessing
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January 4, 2005
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From Publishers Weekly
The latest by the prolific Lessing is a collection of four novellas that vary considerably in quality, with the best of them, "Victoria and the Staveneys" and "A Love Child," showing her at the top of her very impressive form. They are both at once intimat...
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A Ripple From the Storm (The Children of Violence, Book 3)
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October 11, 1995
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New York Times Book Review
"Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that `great tradition' which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence."...
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Love, Again
Doris Lessing
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April 9, 1997
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The first novel from Doris Lessing in more than seven years, ...
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The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5)
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October 11, 1995
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Dorris Lessing's classic series of autobiographical novels is the fictional counterpart to Under My Skin. In these five novels, first published in the 1950's and 60s, Doris Lessing transformed her fascinating life into fiction, creating her most complex and compelling character, Martha Quest....
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Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (My Autobiography, To1949, Vol 1 1949)
Doris Lessing
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October 11, 1995
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From Library Journal
"What is better than a really good biography? Not many novels," says Lessing in her first chapter of what is destined to be one of the best autobiographies of our time. Although Lessing has incorporated her life into nearly all of her novels, most notably ...
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SENTIMENTAL AGENTS (Canopus in Argos--Archives)
Doris Lessing
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March 12, 1984
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A Proper Marriage (The Children of Violence, Book 2)
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October 11, 1995
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-- Literary Horizons
"Very impressive....Portrays modern woman in all her complexity."...
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Particularly Cats
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May 25, 2000
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Here Doris Lessing recounts the cats that have moved and amused her, from her childhood home overrun with kittens, to the wrenching decline of El Magnifico, whose story unfolds in a new essay, appearing here for the first time....
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African Stories (A Touchstone Book)
Doris Lessing
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October 1, 1981
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The Memoirs of a Survivor
Doris Lessing
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April 12, 1988
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One of her profoundest visionary excursions. --Gail Godwin, Chicago Tribune Book WorldAn extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility. --TimeA brilliant fable. --Maureen Howard, front page, The New York Times Book ReviewDoris Lessing again presents herself as one of the most intelligent of ...
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The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
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June 16, 1993
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The 18 stories and non-fiction sketches collected here provide a multifaceted view of Lessing's adopted hometown, London. ...
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In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
Doris Lessing
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April 1, 1993
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New York Times
"Eloquent...Wry and ribald...[Lessing's] impressive gifts for characterization and dialogue, her skill as a raconteur and her tartly humorous style combine to make In Pursuit of the English readable and amusing."...
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Going Home
Doris May Lessing
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April 10, 1996
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"Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But--a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps..." ...
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Through the Tunnel (Creative Short Stories)
Doris May Lessing
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June 1, 1989
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Vacationing at the seashore, a young boy's endurance is tested to the limit when he tries to swim through an underwater tunnel....
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Doris Lessing: Conversations (Ontario Review Press Critical Series)
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April 1, 2000
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From Booklist
Many loyal fans of Doris Lessing have found the inventive, multidimensional writer to be an enigma of sorts, in spite of numerous interviews she has granted and nonfiction works that do reveal facets of herself. These 24 conversations (spanning the 1960s t...
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Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: A Novel
Doris May Lessing
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December 26, 2006
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This sequel to Lessing's futuristic novel Mara and Dann continues the saga of Dann, the refugee boy prince of the Mahondi, who searched with his older sister Mara for habitable land on a planet Earth beset by a new ice age. Several characters from that novel reappear, including Griot, ...
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