Doris Lessing is a Nobel Laureate in literature, who is famous for her short stories (as well as novels like The Golden Notebook and Four-Gated City). Take a look at a few of her short story collections, and find out which stories you can find in each collection.
1. African Stories
This collection includes the following stories:- The Black Madonna
- The Trinket Box
- The Pig
- Traitors
- The Old Chief Mshlanga
- A Sunrise on the Veld
- No Witchcraft for Sale
- The Second Hut
- The Nuisance
- The De Wets Come to Kloof Grange
- Little Tembi
- Old John's Place
- 'Leopard' George
- Winter in July
- A Home for the Highland Cattle
- Eldorado
- The Antheap
- Hunger
- The Words He Said
- Lucy Grange
- A Mild Attack of Locusts
- Flavours of Exile
- Getting Off the Altitude
- A Road to the Big City
- Flight
- Plants and Girls
- The Sun Between Their Feet
- A Letter from Home
- The New Man
- The Story of Two Dogs
2. Five
This collection includes the following stories:- A Home for the Highland Cattle
- The Other Woman
- Eldorado
- The Antheap
- Hunger
3. London Observed
This collection includes the following stories:- Debbie and Julie
- Sparrows
- The Mother of the Child in Question
- Pleasure of the Park
- Womb Ward
- Principles
- D.H.S.S.
- Casualty
- In Defense of the Underground
- The New Cafe
- Romance 1988
- What Price the Truth?
- Among the Roses
- Storms
- Her
- The Pit
- Two Old Women and a Young One
- The Real Thing
4. A Man and Two Women
This collection includes the following stories:- One Off the Short List
- The Story of Two Dogs
- The Sun between Their Feet
- A Woman on a Roof
- How I Finally Lost My Heart
- A Man and Two Women
- A Room
- England versus England
- Two Potters
- Between Men
- A Letter from Home
- Our Friend Judith
- Each Other
- Homage for Isaac Babel
- Outside the Ministry
- Dialogue
- Notes for A Case History
- The New Man
- To Room Nineteen
5. The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
This collection includes the following stories:- Debbie and Julie
- Sparrows
- The Mother of the Child in Question
- Pleasure of the Park
- Womb Ward
- Principles
- D.H.S.S.
- Casualty
- In Defense of the Underground
- The New Cafe
- Romance 1988
- What Price the Truth?
- Among the Roses
- Storms
- Her
- The Pit
- Two Old Women and a Young One
- The Real Thing
6. Spies I Have Known and Other Stories
This collection includes the following stories:- Through the Tunnel
- Pleasure
- Flight
- England Versus England
- To Room 19
- Notes for a Case History
- How I Finally Lost My Heart
- An Old Woman and Her Cat
- Spies I Have Known
- The Story of a Non-Marrying Man
7. Stories
This collection includes the following stories:- The Habit of Loving
- The Woman
- Through the Tunnel
- Pleasure
- The Witness
- The Day Stalin Died
- Wine
- He
- The Eye of God in Paradise
- The Other Woman
- One Off the Short List
- A Woman on a Roof
- How I Finally Lost My Heart
- A Man and Two Women
- A Room
- England versus England
- Two Potters
- Between Men
- Our Friend Judith
- Each Other
- Homage for Isaac Babel
- Outside the Ministry
- Dialogue
- Notes for a Case History
- To Room Nineteen
- An Old Woman and Her Cat
- Side Benefits of an Honourable Profession
- A Year in Regent's Park
- Report on the Threatened City
- Mrs. Fortescue
- An Unposted Love Letter
- Lions, Leaves, Roses...
- Not a Very Nice Story
- The Other Garden
- The Temptation of Jack Orkney
