The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook

Author: Doris Lessing

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2008-10-14

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 0061582484

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Anna 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 disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

Paris Stories
Paris Stories

Author: Mavis Gallant

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2011-04-27

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1590174224

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A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorkerfor close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times.

The Grass is Singing
The Grass is Singing

Author: Doris Lessing

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780435901318

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This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.

A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook
A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2015-03-13

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1410335887

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A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Free Woman
Free Woman

Author: Lara Feigel

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1635570964

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A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the conventions of her own life, Feigel was enticed by Lessing's vision of freedom. Free Woman is essential reading for anyone whose life has been changed by books or has questioned the structures by which they live. Feigel tells Lessing's own story, veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made. At the same time, she scrutinises motherhood, marriage and sexual relationships with an unusually acute gaze. And in the process she conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. This is a genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.

Study Guide to The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Study Guide to The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Author: Intelligent Education

Publisher: Influence Publishers

Published: 2020-02-15

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1645420833

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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, regarded by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as one of the key texts of the women’s movement of the 1960s. As a uniquely structured four-part novel published in 1962, The Golden Notebook focuses on the idea of fragmentation, both in the structure of the book and the content. Moreover, the novel discusses big picture topics such as mental health, communism, and women’s sexuality. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Lessing’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

The Grandmothers
The Grandmothers

Author: Doris Lessing

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0061847666

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Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing’s unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Author: Doris Lessing

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 1992-08-01

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 177089022X

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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.

The Good Terrorist
The Good Terrorist

Author: Doris Lessing

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 9780007498789

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A powerful contemporary novel about a group of would-be terrorists in London that Susan Brownmiller in Newsday called "a bone-tingling narrative that should stand as the crowning achievement of Lessing's distinguished career".

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

Author: Doris Lessing

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0061874795

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“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.