African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
 An Unsure Joy: This was the only non-travel guide about Africa in my local library branch when I got back from 8 months in East Africa, so I picked it up. Certainly a very interesting picture of the slow death of British colonialism, despite Zimbabwean [... more]
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The Sweetest Dream
From Amazon.com: The motivating power of dream and the political price of illusions are the subject of Doris Lessing's extended family saga, The Sweetest Dream. While Frances Lennox, uncomplaining and unsentimental about her roles as a 1960s earth mother [... more]
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The Grass Is Singing
Original and striking: Doris Lessing's "The Grass is Singing" opens with the death of Mary Turner. How could Mary's life have ended with such a tragic fate? As the reader progresses through the novel, he discovers Mary's insufferable existence, [... more]
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The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
I must detest racist author's work: Anybody who heard the March 15th Interview of Ms. Dorris on Public Radio must have supprised how racist she is. She deliberately kept on using discriminatory words although the DJ tried to correct her. Beautiful [... more]
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Mara and Dann: An Adventure
From Amazon.com: Question: What do Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear and Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann have in common? Answer: an ice age. Not the same ice age, of course--Auel's series of prehistoric adventures took place 35,000 years ago, during the [... more]
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Time Bites: Views and Reviews
Author: Doris May Lessing Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 809 EAN: 9780060831400 ISBN: 0060831405 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2005-11-17 [... more]
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In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
warm working-class reception...or something: This little book is a gem in every way. Lessing's loving account of how she got along when she first came to London/England is warm, witty, funny and written with an admirable insight into the minds of people [... more]
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Time Bites: Views and Reviews
Author: Doris May Lessing Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9780060831417 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0060831413 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2006-11-16 [... more]
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The Four-Gated City
Very insightful view of ~20 yrs aft. 1945-people,politics,+: For me, incredibly deep view of life in England approx 1945-mid 60's and the future. One of the books I would take to a desert island - I have read and reread it. I so appreciate her insights [... more]
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My ...
From Amazon.com: More casually written and organized than Under My Skin, the second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography boasts the same acute, brutally frank insights. She begins with her 1949 arrival in London as a 30-year-old single mother from [... more]
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Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
masterful autobiography: Under My Skin Doris Lessing's autobiography traces her political and emotional development from her earliest childhood memories to her growing, overwhelming, disenchantment with provincial (as she saw it) small town life. " [... more]
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Essential Doris Lessing: Excerpts from the Golden Notebook
Author: Doris May Lessing Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 809 EAN: 9780061582462 Edition: Abridged ISBN: 0061582468 Publication Date: 2008-01-10 [... more]
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