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  • The Grass is Singing

    by Doris Lessing ...
    The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in Rhodesia during the years of Apartheid.Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of ‘The Grass is Singing’ with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • On Cats

    by Doris Lessing ...
    Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semiferal creatures on the African farm where she grew up. Her fascination with the handsome, domesticated creatures that have shared her flats and her life in London remained undiminished, and grew into real love with the awkwardly lovable El Magnifico, the last cat to share her home.On Cats is a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Adore

    A Novella

    by Doris Lessing ...
    "A keen sociological eye for class and ideology; an understanding of the contradictory impulses of the human heart; an ability to conjure a place, a mood and a time through seemingly matter-of-fact descriptions." — Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesShocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, Adore reaffirms Doris Lessing's unrivaled ability to capture the truth of the human condition.Roz and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mara and Dann

    Novel, A

    by Doris Lessing ...
    "Tenderly perceptive....A resounding affirmation of humanity and what it holds dearest, from one of our most gifted storytellers."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)Thousands of years in the future, all the northern hemisphere is buried under the ice and snow of a new Ice Age. At the southern end of a large landmass called Ifrik, two children of the Mahondi people, seven-year old Mara and her ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Small Personal Voice

    by Doris Lessing ...
    An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.‘The novelist talks as an individual to individuals, in a small personal voice. In an age of committee art, public art, people may begin to feel again a need for the small personal voice; and this will feed confidence into writers ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

    by Doris Lessing ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    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. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Real Thing

    Stories and Sketches

    by Doris Lessing ...
    "Doris Lessing has a powerful voice and a particular one. It speaks in anger at the distortion of personal relations ion a unsound society, but speaks it with a wit that manages to be both pitiless and compassionate." — Richard Eder, Los Angeles TimesThe stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Love Again

    A Novel

    by Doris Lessing ...
    "She has revealed that brilliant kernel at the heart of it all that we recognize as the truth." — Francine Prose, Washington Post Book WorldLove, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her life as she knows it. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Walking in the Shade

    Growing Point, The

    by Doris Lessing ...
    "The life she describes is heroic...yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel."— San Francisco ChronicleThe second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary London with her son, Peter, and the manuscript for her first novel, The Grass is Singing, under her arm to the publication of her ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Old Chief Mshlanga

    by Doris Lessing ...
    From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young girl’s experience of growing up in an unnamed African country.A young white girl, growing up on her family’s farm in the African bush, recalls her encounters with the local tribal chief, Mshlanga, and the growth of her awareness of the status of those around her.‘The Old Chief Mshlanga’ is a subtle but ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • African Laughter

    Four Visits to Zimbabwe

    by Doris Lessing ...
    A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." — New York Times Book ReviewA rich and penetrating portrait of Lessing's homeland, African Laughter recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989, and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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

    A Novel

    by Doris Lessing ...
    “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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD