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     • Generally serious and didactic, Lessing’s fiction repeatedly urges the human race to develop a wider consciousness that would allow for greater harmony and less violence. Although known particularly as amaster of realism, Lessing is often experimental or deliberately fantastic, as shown in her science-fiction novels.
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   Why is Lessing a good book?

   • Lessing portays issues of racism, greed, and power as they have affected every generation throughout time. Lessing has had a wide readership. For many years she has been on best-seller lists, and her novels have been translated into many languages.

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   Is Lessing a good writer?

   • Lessing’s work is maddening, depressing, brave, and shakes us by the neck. Her final two novels, The Cleft (2007), and Alfred and Emily (2008), show that she was still capable of surprises every time.

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   Why is Lessing important?

   • Her works have been translated into many languages and have inspired critical attention around the globe. Generally serious and didactic, Lessing’s fiction repeatedly urges the human race to develop a wider consciousness that would allow for greater harmony and less violence.

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   What books did Doris Lessing write?

   • Lessing also wrote many short stories set in Southern Africa that were collected into three books: This Was the Old Chief’s Country (1952), The Black Madonna (1966) and Winter in July (1966). Original cover of The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing, 1950 Inner space fiction

   Where to start with Doris Lessing: a guide to her best works

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   How many times did Doris Lessing win a Booker Prize?

   • Lessing was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times: Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), The Sirian Experiment s (1981) and The Good Terrorist (1985). She was also shortlisted for her entire body of work, for The Man Booker International Prize 2005 and 2007. Doris Lessing, 1990 Alice Mellings

   Reading guide: The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing

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   When was Lessing's first book published?

   • When her second marriage ended in 1949, she moved to London, where her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. The book explores the complacency and shallowness of white colonial society in Southern Africa and established Lessing as a talented young novelist.

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3. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresWhere to start with Doris Lessing: a guide to her best works

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   May 25, 2023 · One of the most important writers of the 20th century, Doris Lessing wrote over 70 works, covering a huge range of themes and styles, including three novels that were nominated for a Booker Prize. Here, we select some of her best writing. Written by Gazelle Mba. Published May 25, 2023.

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   May 24, 2019 · Doris Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) has been one of the most widely read and influential British novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Her works have been translated into many languages and have inspired critical attention around the globe.

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   May 3, 2023 · When Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007, Swedish writer Per Wästberg, called The Good Terrorist ‘an in-depth account of the extreme left-wing squatting culture that sponges off female self-sacrifice’. In your reading of the novel, did you feel it was patriarchal?

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   The Golden Notebook. Doris Lessing. 3.77. 23,570 ratings2,263 reviews. Want to read. Kindle $15.99. Rate this book. 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 year.

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   Oct 21, 2021 · In 1962, our reviewer described this radically feminist novel — now considered Lessing’s most influential work — as “a coruscating literary event.”

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   A multi-award-winning and prolific author, Lessing wrote provocative, inventive and influential works, ranging from novels, short stories and science fiction to autobiography, drama, poetry, essays and operas.

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   The book explores the complacency and shallowness of white colonial society in Southern Africa and established Lessing as a talented young novelist. She is now widely regarded as one of the most important post-war writers in English.