Doris Lessing
Born
in Kermanshah, Iran
October 22, 1919
Died
November 17, 2013
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Genre
Influences
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The Golden Notebook
216 editions
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1962
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The Fifth Child
144 editions
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published
1988
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The Grass Is Singing
138 editions
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published
1950
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The Good Terrorist
77 editions
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published
1985
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The Memoirs of a Survivor
82 editions
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published
1974
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The Cleft
50 editions
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published
2007
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
45 editions
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published
1986
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Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (Canopus in Argos, #1)
4 editions
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published
1979
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Martha Quest (Children of Violence, #1)
74 editions
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published
1952
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The Summer Before the Dark
90 editions
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published
1973
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“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
Polls
2nd Quarter 2018 (April-June) Long Read Poll
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1849, 882 pages
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847, 867 pages
The Arabian Nights, 800, 1049 pages
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, 1976, 729 pages
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1008, 1182 pages
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1866, 679 pages
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, 1977, 692 pages
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, 1996, 1088 pages
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 1901, 731 pages
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353, 909 pages
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962, 640 pages
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1925, 859 pages
The Histories by Herodotus, 400 BCE, 716 pages
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 1865, 796 pages
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer, 1890, 880 pages
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, 1982, 936 pages
Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn, 1966, 933 pages
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Bright Young Things: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing - February 2010 (Spoilers Likely) | 12 | 175 | Feb 17, 2010 01:13PM | |
Chicks On Lit: A to Z world wide travel through books. | 45 | 125 | Mar 24, 2010 12:00PM | |
Every one's Choice: A Tie for April | 57 | 46 | Apr 02, 2010 11:55PM | |
Book lovers : A-Z Challenge | 48 | 268 | Apr 14, 2010 09:59AM | |
The Sword and Laser: Books to avoid | 37 | 328 | Apr 30, 2010 11:30AM | |
The Book Challenge: Kuutar's challenges for 2010 | 24 | 85 | Aug 31, 2010 09:33AM | |
SA Book & Challen...: 2010 A-Z Author Challenge | 11 | 105 | Sep 15, 2010 08:48AM | |
Knight-Reading:
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