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Love, Again

By: Doris Lessing

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Love, Again

By: Doris Lessing

A fierce, compelling account of the nature and origins of love from Doris Lessing, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century and winner of the Nobel Pize for Literature 2007.

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HarperCollins UK

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0007389396

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9780007389391

Going Home

By: Doris Lessing

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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..." Going Home is Doris Lessing's account of her first journey back to Africa, the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her emotion and her concern are still invested. Returning to Southern Rhodesia in 1956, she found that her love of Africa had remained as strong as her hatred of the idea of "white supremacy" espoused by its ruling class. Going Home evokes brilliantly the experience of the people, black and white, who have shaped and will shape a beloved country.

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Harper Collins

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0061991198

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9780061991196

In Pursuit of the English

By: Doris Lessing

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In Pursuit of the English

By: Doris Lessing

In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail. But the English she pursued - and found - were living in working-class homes in East London. They were lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded - quite unlike what they were supposed to be.

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0006545165

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9780006545163

Walking in the Shade

Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962

By: Doris Lessing

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Walking in the Shade

Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962

By: Doris Lessing

The second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary London with her son, Peter, and the manuscript for her first novel, The Grass is Singing, under her arm to the publication of her most famous work of fiction, The Golden Notebook. She describes how communism dominated the intellectual life of the 1950s and how she, like nearly all communists, became disillusioned with extreme and rhetorical politics and left communism behind. Evoking the bohemian days of a young writer and single mother, Lessing speaks openly about her writing process, her friends and lovers, her involvement in the theater, and her political activities. Walking in the Shade is an invaluable social history as well as Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education.

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Harper Perennial

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0060929561

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9780060929565

Under My Skin

Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

By: Doris Lessing

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Under My Skin

Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

By: Doris Lessing

This book begins with Lessing's childhood in Africa, recalling her marriages and involvement in communist politics and ends on her arrival in London in 1949, with the typescript of her first novel - The Grass is Singing - in her suitcase.

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HarperPerennial

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0006548253

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9780006548256

Mara and Dann

An Adventure

By: Doris Lessing

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Mara and Dann

An Adventure

By: Doris Lessing

Two children, Mara and Dann, are victims of a palace coup and are forced to flee from their home in the middle of the night - They join a great migration northwards and survive many dangers_

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0002259257

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9780002259255

A Proper Marriage

By: Doris May Lessing

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A Proper Marriage

By: Doris May Lessing

An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. "A Proper Marriage" is the second novel in Doris Lessing' s classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

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Borgo Press

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0809591707

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9780809591701

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

By: Doris May Lessing

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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

By: Doris May Lessing

A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad.

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296

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Bantam Books

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0553143980

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9780553143980

Doris Lessing Three-Book Edition: The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing, The Good Terrorist

By: Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing Three-Book Edition: The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing, The Good Terrorist

By: Doris Lessing

This collection brings together three of Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s most acclaimed novels.

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HarperCollins UK

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0007572638

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9780007572632

Time Bites

Views and Reviews

By: Doris Lessing

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Time Bites

Views and Reviews

By: Doris Lessing

“A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lucid, wise, knowledgeable, and witty.”— Booklist In this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing’s essays we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has learned, over the course of a brilliant career, to read the world differently. From imagining the secret sex life of Tolstoy to the secrets of Sufism, from reviews of classic books to commentaries on world politics, these essays span an impressive range of subjects, cultures, periods, and themes, yet they are remarkably consistent in one key regard: Lessing’s clear-eyed vision and clearly-expressed prose. But in its breadth and precision Time Bites is more: it is also a map of the human spirit and an intimate diagram of the mind of one of our greatest living writers.

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Harper Collins

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0061967742

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9780061967740

Love Again

Novel, A

By: Doris Lessing

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Love Again

Novel, A

By: Doris Lessing

Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she falls in love with a seductive young actor, the beautiful and androgynous 28-year-old Bill, and then with the more mature 35-year-old director Henry. 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 her most recent obsessions. The result is a brilliant anatomy of love from a master of human psychology who remains one of the most daring writers of fiction at work today.

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Harper Perennial

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0060927968

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9780060927967

Love, Again

A Novel

By: Doris May Lessing

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Love, Again

A Novel

By: Doris May Lessing

A story of love and desire in an older woman finds sixty-five-year-old Sarah Durham in relationships with two much-younger men and follows her struggles with the feelings of her youth. 75,000 first printing. $85,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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HarperCollins

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0060176873

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9780060176877

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

By: Doris Lessing

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

By: Doris Lessing

In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.

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House of Anansi

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177089022X

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9781770890220

Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog

A Novel

By: Doris Lessing

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Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog

A Novel

By: Doris Lessing

“Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the past 100 years, a shrewd visionary. . . . Her new, short, haunting novel . . . succors us with . . . unforgettable visual images. We shiver and marvel as we lose ourselves in time.”— The Times (London) In her visionary novel Mara and Dann, Doris Lessing introduced a brother and sister battling through a future landscape defined by extreme climates in the north and south. In this new novel the odyssey continues. Dann is grown up, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization, traveling with his friend, a snow dog who saves him from the depths of despair. Here, too, are Mara’s daughter and Griot with the green eyes, an abandoned child-soldier who discovers the meaning of love and the ability to sing stories. Like its predecessor, this brilliant novel from one of our greatest living writers explains as much about our world as it does about the future we may be heading toward.

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344

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Harper Collins

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0061874795

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9780061874796

Stories

Introduction by Margaret Drabble

By: Doris Lessing

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Stories

Introduction by Margaret Drabble

By: Doris Lessing

This wide-ranging collection of the stories by the renowned Nobel Laureate—spanning more than two decades of her astonishing career—highlights her singular gifts for portraying the complex lives of men and women in a modern, often alienating world. Included are seminal stories like “To Room Nineteen,” in which a woman reacts against the oppression of her banal marriage with dreadful results; “One off the Short List,” which traces the surprising conclusion to a seduction gone awry; “The Habit of Loving,” in which a lonely older man who takes a vivacious, young wife witnesses an unexpected reversal of intimacy. Here are two classic novellas as well: The Temptation of Jack Orkney and The Other Woman, which exemplify Lessing’s grasp of the most essential human psychology. Rich and various in mood and background—the settings range across England and France—these stories powerfully convey the uncompromising insight, intelligence, and vision of one of the most ardently admired writers of our time.

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698

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Everyman's Library

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0307269884

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9780307269881

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

By: Doris Lessing

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By: Doris Lessing

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Shikasta

Re, Colonised Planet 5

By: Doris Lessing

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Shikasta

Re, Colonised Planet 5

By: Doris Lessing

The first volume in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series is presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, and purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta–clearly the planet Earth–to be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives. For eons, galactic empires have struggled against one another, and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds. Johar, an emissary from Canopus and the primary contributor to the archives, visits Shikasta over the millennia from the time of the giants and the biblical great flood up to the present. With every visit he tries to distract Shikastans from the evil influences of the planet Shammat but notes with dismay the ever-growing chaos and destruction of Shikasta as its people hurl themselves towards World War III and annihilation.

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538

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Vintage

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0307777669

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9780307777669

Alfred and Emily

By: Doris Lessing

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Alfred and Emily

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Doris Lessing’s first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led.

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288

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Fourth Estate

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0007283202

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9780007283200

A Home for the Highland Cattle and the Antheap

By: Doris Lessing

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A Home for the Highland Cattle and the Antheap

By: Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing's two short novels A Home for the Highland Cattle, a wry portrait of African settler society, and The Antheap, set in the gold fields of the former Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), were originally published in Five (1953), a collection of Lessing's shorter fictional works. This Broadview edition includes both novels, as well as a critical introduction and a rich selection of primary source material, such as excerpts from interviews with Doris Lessing, short fiction by contemporary African women writers, reviews, and historical documents focussing on race and socio-economic conditions in the former Southern Rhodesia.

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Broadview Press

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1551113635

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9781551113630

Shikasta

re, colonised planet 5 : personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) emissary (grade 9) 87th of the period of the last days

By: Doris May Lessing

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Shikasta

re, colonised planet 5 : personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) emissary (grade 9) 87th of the period of the last days

By: Doris May Lessing

A variety of narratives, including the report of Johor (George Sherban)--the Emissary sent by the Powers controlling our part of the universe--reveal what the planet Shikasta and its inhabitants have, in desperation, endured

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Knopf

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0394507320

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9780394507323

The Cleft

By: Doris Lessing

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The Cleft

By: Doris Lessing

In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of human creation and reveal the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange new child--a boy--the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy. In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing confronts the themes that inspired much of her early writing: how men and women manage to live side by side in the world and how the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of our existence.

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HarperPerennial

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0007233442

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9780007233441

Through the Tunnel

By: Doris Lessing

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Through the Tunnel

By: Doris Lessing

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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Creative Education

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0886823463

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9780886823467

A Proper Marriage

A Complete Novel from Doris Lessing's Masterwork Children of Violence

By: Doris Lessing

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A Proper Marriage

A Complete Novel from Doris Lessing's Masterwork Children of Violence

By: Doris Lessing

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Plume Books

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0452265770

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9780452265776

A Small Personal Voice

By: Doris Lessing

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A Small Personal Voice

By: Doris Lessing

An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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HarperCollins UK

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0007518315

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9780007518319

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