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1	Fifth Child more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $7.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Grass Is Singing more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Golden Notebook more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $15.25! \| first editions
4	Memoirs of a survivor more books like this by Doris May Lessing The narrator, unnamed, is a middle-aged woman living in a post-apocalyptic London. She is given a 12-year-old girl, Emily, to care for, and the novel chronicles their relationship, Emily's growth into a woman, and how she eventually teaches the narrator to live in this new, chaotic world. As the novel progresses, the narrator stares at her living ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.55! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Good Terrorist more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $8.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics Edition more books like this by Doris May Lessing (Introduction by) 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 $3.79! new only from $9.36! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962 more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $2.46! new only from $2.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Prisons We Choose to Live Inside more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $2.27! new only from $5.22! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Summer Before the Dark more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $5.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The sweetest dream more books like this by Doris May Lessing Beginning with Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Doris Lessing's very autobiographical novel chronicles, over two decades, the story of Frances Lennox, her two sons, and her unsavory ex-husband, Johnny, a self-important Marxist who drops in and out of her life wreaking various kinds of havoc. At the end of the novel, a peripheral character named ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.05! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Four Gated City more books like this by Doris May Lessing Martha Quest moves to London and gets a job as a secretary to the writer Mark Coldridge; she also begins an affair with him. This book becomes apocalyptic as Martha first envisions a utopia of a four-gated city "where black and white and brown lived as equals, and there was no hatred or violence." then we find that Coldrige is planning such a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 more books like this by Doris May Lessing Lessing has always incorporated her life into her fiction, but not until the eagerly awaited publication of Under My Skin did her readers have direct access to the fascinating and tumultuous life story of this most celebrated literary talent. Photos. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $6.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Briefing for a Descent Into Hell more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe more books like this by Doris May Lessing British author Lessing recounts visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, 25 years after her exile from old Southern Rhodesia for opposing the minority white government. "(Lessing's) insight into and sympathy for human beings of both races and all conditions is persuasive and affecting".--The New Yorker. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Mara and Dann: An Adventure more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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	The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $2.58! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Stories more books like this by Doris May Lessing 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 $11.17! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Love, Again more books like this by Doris Lessing Sarah Durham is 65 years old and in love--first with a 28-year-old actor, and then with a 35-year-old director. The novel details Sarah's love, longing, desire, the sexuality of an older woman, grief, and a lifetime of love experiences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Proper Marriage more books like this by Lessing Martha Quest is married to Douglas Knowell, has a child, and becomes even more politically active as her husband fights in World War II. When he returns, however, she finds her life stifling and she leaves him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches more books like this by Doris May Lessing These short stories explore the condition of being female from a variety of viewpoints, ages, and times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Landlocked more books like this by Doris May Lessing Martha Quest and Anton, while still married, live separately. It is the close of World War II; Jewish refugees continue to come to Rhodesia, and Martha has a romantic affair with one, Thomas Stern from Poland. Stern, however, leaves, and travels to Israel; upon his return to Africa, he decides to live with the natives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.01! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Diaries of Jane Somers more books like this by Doris May Lessing (Photographer) 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 $13.68! \| first editions
23 view cover	Shikasta more books like this by Doris Lessing This is Lessing's first novel in the Canopus in Argos series. "Shikasta" is a series of documents looking at Earth's history and considering it cosmically. The documents describe both good and evil empires are at work to influence Earth. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English more books like this by Ian Ousby (Editor), Doris May Lessing (Foreword by) The most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of literature in English ever published. It covers all the major writers, worldwide, right up to the present day. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions
25 view cover	Particularly Cats more books like this by Doris May Lessing Novelist Doris Lessing's eloquent and moving tribute to the cats she has known has become a classic of the genre. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.11! \| first editions

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