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Alfred and Emily Best Price: $15.70 There are some lessons to be learned from Doris Lessing's new book, "Alfred &... | The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics) Best Price: $5.95 My book club chose this book. Otherwise I don't think I would have made it through the entire... | The Fifth Child Best Price: $5.00 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) Best Price: $7.50 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) Best Price: $7.95 On the whole, I would say that this book is considered a classic mostly because of its legendary... |
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The Summer Before the Dark Best Price: $5.33 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) Best Price: $6.08 This was actually my first experience with Doris Lessing, tho I've heard of her for years. Her... | Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics) Best Price: $2.22 This book mirrors a girl's search of an identidy in a country where people from different... | The Cleft: A Novel Best Price: $3.49 Lessing provides an interesting take on creation in The Cleft, but.... I, a normally fast... | Prisons We Choose to Live Inside Best Price: $4.97 So often one comes across a piece of literature that asks for nothing from the reader, this is... |
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Stories (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $17.09 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--1949-1962 Best Price: $3.99 This second part of Doris Lessing's candid biography, which depicts her difficult beginnings in... | The Sweetest Dream: A Novel Best Price: $4.93 Doris Lessing is a writer of many locales and many genres. Of British parentage, she was born in... | The Memoirs of a Survivor Best Price: $7.74 What struck me most in the marvelous Lessing short book, Memoirs of a Survivor, is how... | The Good Terrorist (Vintage International) Best Price: $8.64 Alice and her boyfriend Jasper join a squat of left wing activists intent on overthrowing the... |
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Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 (George Sherban Emissary) Best Price: $7.00 Doris Lessing's novel Shikasta (1979) is, yes, built on a science-fiction framework, a fact... | Mara and Dann: An Adventure Best Price: $0.06 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 Could These two extraordinarily engaging fictional diaries narrated by Jane (Janna) Somers crackle... | The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5) Best Price: $11.97 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 Child Best Price: $1.84 I read The Fifth Child and found it a passable piece of literature: It had a fair amount of... |
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The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels Best Price: $2.53 Deserves five stars for the first two novellas in this set of four. The third is too... | The Kreutzer Sonata (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $3.95 Tolstoy's ability to capture the humanity of his characters is displayed in this collection of... | Canopus 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 Hell Best Price: $7.59 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 Author Best Price: $3.99 A feminist landmark, The Golden Notebook tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises... |
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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 Cats Best Price: $10.17 Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the... | The Black Madonna | Through the Tunnel (Creative Short Stories) Best Price: $2.99 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 Betrayal Best Price: $11.96 Really nice. Many stories for your kids |
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African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe Best Price: $5.98 I have never been in Africa and have never read any of the books about the continent except for... | Love, Again Best Price: $1.20 How I loathed, absolutely loathed this book. Almost three solid weeks of plodding. And I did... | Going Home Best Price: $6.97 It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to... | the fifth child Best Price: $6.89 | Time Bites: Views and Reviews Best Price: $1.78 This collection of small essays reveals to us the world of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing.... |
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Landlocked (The Children of Violence, Book 4) Best Price: $8.15 In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is... | 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) Best Price: $4.95 This Broadview edition pairs two Doris Lessing novellas originally published in Five (1953), for... | A Proper Marriage (The Children of Violence, Book 2) Best Price: $7.95 Doris Lessing remains one of my favorite writers. I first fell in love with her work when I read... | London Observed Best Price: $8.69 'During that first year in England, I had a vision of London I cannot recall now...it was a... |
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Behind a Mask (Hesperus Classics) Best Price: $7.95 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 Five Best Price: $13.90 I read this book to see how a Nobel Prize winning author would treat the
science fiction genre.... | Fatal Eggs (Hesperus Classics) Best Price: $7.00 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) Best Price: $7.13 This woman!, I've named my daughter after her: DORIS | THE SENTIMENTAL AGENTS (Canopus in Argos--archives) Best Price: $91.92 As I write this, Jessica Lynch is in the news, and analyses of the strange un-truths that led to... |
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INSTRUCCIONES PARA UN DESCENSO AL INFIERNO Best Price: $4.81 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) Best Price: $24.50 '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) Best Price: $5.50 In these twenty-four provocative interviews, Doris Lessing talks frankly to a variety of... | The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches Best Price: $1.00 I love this book. Doris Lessing described every true feeling of women's innermost heart,... | The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Best Price: $15.95 The people of Planet Eight had happy, productive lives. They seemed born with knowledge of... |
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The Doris Lessing Reader (Paladin Books) | In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary Best Price: $7.90 This little book is a gem in every way. Lessing's loving account of how she got along when she... | Particularly Cats While reading this book I became so involved having raised so many cats over the years. Her... | The Diaries of Jane Somers Best Price: $49.10 | Canopus in Argos: Archives The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five Best Price: $10.00 I first read this book many years ago, and had a happy memory of it. I was very pleased that a... |
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The Summer Before the Dark (Book Club Edition) Best Price: $59.95 | The Story of a Non-marrying Man and Other Stories (Paladin Books) Best Price: $12.99 | | | |