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  • The Golden Notebook

    A Novel

    by Doris Lessing ...
    Series series Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
    "The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." — New York Times Book ReviewAnna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Briefing for a Descent into Hell

    by Doris Lessing ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

    by Doris Lessing ...
    Series series Cornelia & Michael Bessie
    The Nobel Prize winner reflects on living "in a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures."In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing considers the savage past of our species and the remnants of it that seem to regularly erupt in our supposedly advanced and civilized world. Ultimately, she directly addresses the prime ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Martha Quest. Illustrated

    by Doris Lessing ...
    Martha Quest is the first novel in Doris Lessing’s Children of Violence series, a compelling exploration of a young woman’s coming-of-age against the backdrop of political and social upheaval. Set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1930s and 1940s, the novel traces the life of Martha Quest, a strong-willed, introspective girl caught between personal desires and the larger forces of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Fifth Child

    by Doris Lessing ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Grass Is Singing

    A Novel

    by Doris Lessing ...
    "There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel." — New York TimesSet in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.Mary Turner is a ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Adore

    A Novella

    by Doris Lessing ...
    "A keen sociological eye for class and ideology; an understanding of the contradictory impulses of the human heart; an ability to conjure a place, a mood and a time through seemingly matter-of-fact descriptions." — Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesShocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, Adore reaffirms Doris Lessing's unrivaled ability to capture the truth of the human condition.Roz and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Pursuit of the English

    A Documentary

    by Doris Lessing ...
    "One of the most authentic books ever written about the English....Funny, touching and so real that the smell and taste of London seem to rise from its pages." — San Francisco ChronicleIn Pursuit of the English is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Proper Marriage. Illustrated

    by Doris Lessing ...
    A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing’s Children of Violence series, continuing the journey of Martha Quest as she navigates the challenges of adulthood in a world filled with personal and political conflicts. Set in colonial Africa, the novel explores Martha’s evolving understanding of marriage, identity, and the complex societal expectations that shape her life. Following the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    The Golden Notebook

    by Doris Lessing, Juliet Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Juliet Stevenson ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 34 min

    One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, it was brought to a wider public by the Nobel Prize award to Doris Lessing in 2007. Authoress Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer’s block by writing a comprehensive ‘golden notebook’ which draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook: sources of her creative ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • On Cats

    by Doris Lessing ...

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cleft

    A Novel

    by Doris Lessing ...
    From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind's beginnings.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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD