Lessing, Doris Books


Alfred and EmilyAlfred and Emily
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There are some lessons to be learned from Doris Lessing's new book, "Alfred &...
The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)
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My book club chose this book. Otherwise I don't think I would have made it through the entire...
The Fifth ChildThe Fifth Child
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I read this in a state of agitation and joy. It gets off to a quick start and has a high level...
The Grass Is Singing: A Novel (Perennial Classics)The Grass Is Singing: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
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This novel was published in 1950. As a picture of white society in Rhodesia just before/during...
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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On the whole, I would say that this book is considered a classic mostly because of its legendary...


The Summer Before the DarkThe Summer Before the Dark
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As I post this review, I have read three of Lessing's novels from three different time periods...
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (My Autobiography, To1949, Vol 1    1949)Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (My Autobiography, To1949, Vol 1 1949)
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This was actually my first experience with Doris Lessing, tho I've heard of her for years. Her...
Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics)Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
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This book mirrors a girl's search of an identidy in a country where people from different...
The Cleft: A NovelThe Cleft: A Novel
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Lessing provides an interesting take on creation in The Cleft, but.... I, a normally fast...
Prisons We Choose to Live InsidePrisons We Choose to Live Inside
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So often one comes across a piece of literature that asks for nothing from the reader, this is...


Stories (Everyman's Library (Cloth))Stories (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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Whether describing an actress in love with an angry married man, the simple pleasures of a...
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962
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This second part of Doris Lessing's candid biography, which depicts her difficult beginnings in...
The Sweetest Dream: A NovelThe Sweetest Dream: A Novel
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Doris Lessing is a writer of many locales and many genres. Of British parentage, she was born in...
The Memoirs of a SurvivorThe Memoirs of a Survivor
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What struck me most in the marvelous Lessing short book, Memoirs of a Survivor, is how...
The Good Terrorist (Vintage International)The Good Terrorist (Vintage International)
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Alice and her boyfriend Jasper join a squat of left wing activists intent on overthrowing the...

Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 (George Sherban Emissary)Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 (George Sherban Emissary)
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Doris Lessing's novel Shikasta (1979) is, yes, built on a science-fiction framework, a fact...
Mara and Dann: An AdventureMara and Dann: An Adventure
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I believe that long after most readers have finished this picaresque novel they will remember...
The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbor and If The Old CouldThe Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbor and If The Old Could
These two extraordinarily engaging fictional diaries narrated by Jane (Janna) Somers crackle...
The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5)The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5)
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Martha Quest Hesse is a new arrival in London. After staying with people at the docks, in a...
Ben, In the World: The Sequel to the Fifth ChildBen, In the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child
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I read The Fifth Child and found it a passable piece of literature: It had a fair amount of...

The Grandmothers: Four Short NovelsThe Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
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Deserves five stars for the first two novellas in this set of four. The third is too...
The Kreutzer Sonata (Modern Library Classics)The Kreutzer Sonata (Modern Library Classics)
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Tolstoy's ability to capture the humanity of his characters is displayed in this collection of...
Canopus in Argos: ArchivesCanopus in Argos: Archives
Many who read this book would be shocked to learn that Doris Lessing dropped out of school at...
Briefing for a Descent into HellBriefing for a Descent into Hell
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I was reading this book when I heard Doris Lessing had been awarded the Nobel prize in...
Essential Doris Lessing CD: Excerpts from The Golden Notebook Read by the AuthorEssential Doris Lessing CD: Excerpts from The Golden Notebook Read by the Author
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A feminist landmark, The Golden Notebook tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises...

African Stories (A Touchstone Book)African Stories (A Touchstone Book)
THis is a collection of the best of Doris Lessing's short stories and a couple of novellas all...
On CatsOn Cats
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Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the...
The Black MadonnaThe Black MadonnaThrough the Tunnel (Creative Short Stories)Through the Tunnel (Creative Short Stories)
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This book is horrible. it talks about a guy who goes through a tunnel. How exiting can that...
Kalila and Dimna: Fables of Friendship and BetrayalKalila and Dimna: Fables of Friendship and Betrayal
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Really nice. Many stories for your kids

African Laughter: Four Visits to ZimbabweAfrican Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
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I have never been in Africa and have never read any of the books about the continent except for...
Love, AgainLove, Again
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How I loathed, absolutely loathed this book. Almost three solid weeks of plodding. And I did...
Going HomeGoing Home
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It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to...
the fifth childthe fifth child
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Time Bites: Views and ReviewsTime Bites: Views and Reviews
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This collection of small essays reveals to us the world of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing....

Landlocked (The Children of Violence, Book 4)Landlocked (The Children of Violence, Book 4)
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In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is...
A man and two women: Stories (A Touchstone book)A man and two women: Stories (A Touchstone book)
"Wonderful, incisive, marvelous, exactly right...some of the very best writing now being...
A Home for the Highland Cattle & The Antheap (Broadview Literary Texts)A Home for the Highland Cattle & The Antheap (Broadview Literary Texts)
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This Broadview edition pairs two Doris Lessing novellas originally published in Five (1953), for...
A Proper Marriage (The Children of Violence, Book 2)A Proper Marriage (The Children of Violence, Book 2)
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Doris Lessing remains one of my favorite writers. I first fell in love with her work when I read...
London ObservedLondon Observed
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'During that first year in England, I had a vision of London I cannot recall now...it was a...

Behind a Mask (Hesperus Classics)Behind a Mask (Hesperus Classics)
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This was an amazing thriller. It kept me reading until the end. I do not usualy like thrillers,...
THE SIRIAN EXPERIMENTS (Canopus in Argos--Archives) ~ The Report by Ambien II, of the FiveTHE SIRIAN EXPERIMENTS (Canopus in Argos--Archives) ~ The Report by Ambien II, of the Five
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I read this book to see how a Nobel Prize winning author would treat the science fiction genre....
Fatal Eggs (Hesperus Classics)Fatal Eggs (Hesperus Classics)
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Bulgakov is wonderful. This story is a charming expression of Bulgakov's sentiments of Soviet...
A Ripple From the Storm (The Children of Violence, Book 3)A Ripple From the Storm (The Children of Violence, Book 3)
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This woman!, I've named my daughter after her: DORIS
THE SENTIMENTAL AGENTS (Canopus in Argos--archives)THE SENTIMENTAL AGENTS (Canopus in Argos--archives)
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As I write this, Jessica Lynch is in the news, and analyses of the strange un-truths that led to...

INSTRUCCIONES PARA UN DESCENSO AL INFIERNOINSTRUCCIONES PARA UN DESCENSO AL INFIERNO
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Un hombre condenado a navegar hacia el Mar de los Sargazos, recala en una isla inh?spita poblada...
This Was the Old Chief's Country (Collected African Stories)This Was the Old Chief's Country (Collected African Stories)
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'It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was - and still is - the Old Chief's...
Doris Lessing: Conversations (Ontario Review Press Critical Series)Doris Lessing: Conversations (Ontario Review Press Critical Series)
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In these twenty-four provocative interviews, Doris Lessing talks frankly to a variety of...
The Real Thing: Stories and SketchesThe Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
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I love this book. Doris Lessing described every true feeling of women's innermost heart,...
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
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The people of Planet Eight had happy, productive lives. They seemed born with knowledge of...

The Doris Lessing Reader (Paladin Books)The Doris Lessing Reader (Paladin Books)In Pursuit of the English: A DocumentaryIn Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
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This little book is a gem in every way. Lessing's loving account of how she got along when she...
Particularly CatsParticularly Cats
While reading this book I became so involved having raised so many cats over the years. Her...
The Diaries of Jane SomersThe Diaries of Jane Somers
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Canopus in Argos: Archives The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and FiveCanopus in Argos: Archives The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five
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I first read this book many years ago, and had a happy memory of it. I was very pleased that a...

The Summer Before the Dark (Book Club Edition)The Summer Before the Dark (Book Club Edition)
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The Story of a Non-marrying Man and Other Stories (Paladin Books)The Story of a Non-marrying Man and Other Stories (Paladin Books)
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