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Doris Lessing - Selected List of Works

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Doris Lessing is a famous British writer. Here's a selected list of her works:
  • The Grass Is Singing (1950)
  • This Was the Old Chief's Country (collection) (1951)
  • Five (short stories) (1953)
  • Martha Quest (1952)
  • Five (short stories) (1953)
  • A Proper Marriage (1954)
  • A Ripple from the Storm (1958)
  • Landlocked (1965)
  • The Four-Gated City (1969)
  • Going Home (memoir) (1957)
  • The Habit of Loving (collection) (1957)
  • In Pursuit of the English (nonfiction) (1960)
  • The Golden Notebook (1962)
  • A Man and Two Women (collection) (1963)
  • African Stories (collection) (1964)
  • Particularly Cats (stories & nonfiction) (1967)
  • Particularly Cats and Rufus the Survivor (1993)
  • The Old Age of El Magnifico (stories & nonfiction) (2000)
  • Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971)
  • The Temptation of Jack Orkney and other Stories (collection) (1972)
  • The Summer Before the Dark (1973)
  • A Small Personal Voice (Essays) (1974)
  • Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)
  • Shikasta (1979)
  • The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980)
  • The Sirian Experiments (1980)
  • The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1982)
  • The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (1983)
  • Stories (collection) (1978)
  • The Diary of a Good Neighbour (1983)
  • If the Old Could... (1984)
  • The Good Terrorist (1985)
  • Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (1987)
  • The Wind Blows Away Our Words (1987)
  • The Fifth Child (1988)
  • African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (memoir) (1992)
  • Conversations (interviews, edited by Earl G. Ingersoll) (1994)
  • Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (1994)
  • Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography 1949 to 1962 (1997)
  • Spies I Have Known (collection) (1995)
  • Love, Again (1996)
  • The Pit (collection) (1996)
  • Mara and Dann (1999)
  • Ben, in the World (2000)
  • The Sweetest Dream (2001)
  • The Grandmothers : Four Short Novels (2003)
  • The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog (2005)
  • The Cleft (2007)

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