BOOKS by Doris Lessing

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1	Golden Notebook more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist This novel is widely considered to be Lessing's masterpiece. Anna Wulf, a writer living in London, attempts to conquer the chaos of her life by using five notebooks as journals: the black one deals with her life in colonial Africa, the red is her Communist experiences, the yellow is a more or less fictionalized chronicle of Anna's alter ego Ella, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics Edition more books like this by Doris May Lessing (Introduction by) add to wishlist Timed to coincide with Women's History Month, a new edition of the powerful and liberating feminist novel that raised the consciousness of an entire generation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
3	Fifth Child more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Harriet and David Levatt defy the chaotic, unconstrained 1960s with a closely-guarded, nurturing family environment. Into an already large family, which Harriet tends while David works, their fifth child is born. Ben, an ugly, violent, demanding baby, is shockingly alien to their comfortable, kind home--his mother cannot love him and his father ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Summer Before the Dark more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Kate Brown, aged 45, leaves her home and her self-sacrificing, passive life there. She spends the summer as a translator of Portuguese, traveling to Turkey and Spain and having an affair with a younger man. When she returns to London, she is able to accept her aging, her husband's affairs, and the fact that she is no longer essential to her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Alfred and Emily more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Nobel Laureate Lessing offers a moving meditation on parents and children, war and memory, and she explores the lives of her parents, two individuals irrevocably damaged by the Great War, in this work that combines fiction and memoir. Photos throughout. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962 more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist The second volume of novelist Doris Lessing's autobiography. Born in Iran of English parents, Lessing lived in England as a small child but was eventually taken to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her family and raised there. Volume 2 describes her life after she moved back to England following the publication of her first novel in 1949. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Grass Is Singing more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Mary Turner, a white woman married to a white farmer in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), is both afraid of and attracted to Moses, a black farmhand. Issues of prejudice, and what was known as "the colour bar", provide the backdrop for this novel of a woman's gradual disintegration and violent death. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist A disturbing allegory, centered around a planet called Shikasta, which bears remarkable similarities to Earth. Through time, a higher planet, Canopus, has documented the progress of Shikasta and tried to distract its inhabitants from the evil influence of the planet Shammat, but the Shikastans continue to hurl themselves toward annihilation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.10! \| first editions \| SVS
9	On Cats more books like this by Doris Lessing add to wishlist Consisting of the celebrated story collections "Particularly Cats" and "Rufus the Survivor," and the memoir "The Old Age of El Magnifico," this book brilliantly evokes the subtleties of feline existence. An entertaining read for both cat and Lessing connoisseurs.--"The Observer." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| SVS
10	African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing. n the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, a country from which she had been banned for twenty-five years for her opposition to the government of what was then white ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist This first part of Doris Lessing's autobiography covers her African childhood and youth, her involvement in communist politics, and her departure for England and a new life. It is a self-portrait of a woman who lived through "an extraordinary time, the end of the British Empire in Africa". Being lifted high up onto her father's horse, watching ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Martha Quest more books like this by Doris Lessing add to wishlist The first in Lessings' Children of Violence series, MARTHA QUEST introduces Martha at age 15, chafing at the restraints of her bourgeois home and domineering mother. As soon as she is able, Martha leaves her rural home for the city, where she joins a political left-wing group, has her first sexual experience, and meets and marries her husband. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist These four short works include VICTORIA AND THE STAVENEYS (which contrasts the life of a young black woman with that of a wealthy family of whites), THE REASON FOR IT (a spinoff from Lessing's sci-fi oeuvre), A LOVE CHILD (about the brief love affair between an English soldier in World War II and an unhappily married South African woman), and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Memoirs of a survivor more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist As the world falls apart outside, the narrator watches over Emily, a young child brought into her care by a stranger. Emily is also guarded by Hugo, half cat and half dog, the bizarre and lovable beast whose presence dominates the tale. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Mara and Dann: An Adventure more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Lessing's dystopian novel is set in the future, in a post-apocalyptic land called Ifrik. The plot involves a sister and brother who grow to adulthood in a world in which war has eliminated every certainty. Discovering the story of their murky past life, they make the decision to rebel against the new regime. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Briefing for a Descent Into Hell more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Based on the work of psychoanalyst R. D. Laing, this novel explores issues of psychic wholeness. Charles Watkins, a Cambridge University classics professor, is navigating the Atlantic Ocean on a raft after a UFO has abducted his companions. He arrives at an island where he finds the ruins of an ancient city. There, he is transported to a sort of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The diaries of Jane Somers by Doris Lessing add to wishlist These two novels, THE DIARY OF A GOOD NEIGHBOR and IF THE OLD COULD, are published as a single volume now, but at the time of their original publication, they were submitted as separate novels by Lessing under the pseudonym Jane Somers. This ploy was an attempt by Lessing to confirm her suspicions that young unknown writers were not taken ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.76! \| first editions
18 view cover	Four Gated City more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist The fifth book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm" and "Landlocked". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Good Terrorist more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Doris Lessing's THE GOOD TERRORIST is a subtle portrait of the relationships among the members of a militant left-wing commune. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Proper Marriage more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist One of Doris Lessing's most important novels -- here beautifully repackaged This is the second volume in Doris Lessing's renowned quartet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in Africa to an imagined post-nuclear Britain. A Proper Marriage sees twenty-something Martha beginning to realise that her marriage has been a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Love Again: A Novel more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Widowed for many years, and with grown children, a 65-year-old woman falls in love again and struggles to maintain her sanity. Finding herself in a state of longing and desire that she had thought was the province of younger women, Sarah is compelled to explore and examine her own personal history of love, from her earliest childhood desires to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Prisons We Choose to Live Inside more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist These brief essays are explorations of human behavior from the point of view of a woman who has spent her life questioning the moral issues associated with war, racism, and politics. Always tolerant, humane, and wise, Lessing also remains hopeful in the face of a century of prejudice, narrow-mindedness, and blatant abuse of human rights. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The making of the representative for Planet 8 more books like this by Doris Lessing add to wishlist The fourth in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle "Canopus in Argos: Archives". It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history. see all copies from $2.28! new only from $10.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Stories more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist All of Doris Lessing's short fiction is represented here, with the exception of her African stories. Set in the cosmopolitan worlds of London, Paris, the south of France, and the English countryside, these 35 short works are thoughtful explorations of love, marriage, lust, and the condition of women. "Her grasp of what is actually happening in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Under My Skin more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Doris Lessing offers her autobiography up to the year 1949, from her childhood and adolescence in Rhodesia, to her first marriage and abandonment of her two children, her jettisoning of religion and adopting of political activism. Though autobiographical elements have always found a way into her fiction, here are the facts themselves. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| signed copies \| first editions

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