Doris Lessing (1919–2013)

Author of The Golden Notebook

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About the Author

Doris Lessing was born in Kermanshah, Persia (later Iran) on October 22, 1919 and grew up in Rhodesia (the present-day Zimbabwe). During her two marriages, she submitted short fiction and poetry for publication. After moving to London in 1949, she published her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, in show more 1950. She is best known for her 1954 Somerset Maugham Award-winning experimental novel The Golden Notebook. Her other works include This Was the Old Chief's Country, the Children of Violence series, the Canopus in Argos - Archives series, and Alfred and Emily. She has received numerous awards for her work including the 2001 Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature, the David Cohen British Literature Prize, and the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. She died on November 17, 2013 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: janesomers, Jane Somers, Doris Lessing, Doris Lessing, Dorris Lessing, Doris M. Lessing, Ms Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing, May Lessing Doris, Lessing Doris May, Doris Lessing R1H5, Lessing Doris R2H6, Дорис Лессинг, ドリスレッシング, ドリス・レッシング, Doris; Doris Lessing Lessing, Doris Lessing ( Duo Li Si Lai Xin )

Series

Children of Violence

Canopus in Argos: Archives

Jane Somers

Ben, the Fifth Child

Mara and Dann

Collected African stories

Autobiographie, Doris Lessing

Works by Doris Lessing

Popular Recent

The Golden Notebook (1962) 5,414 copies

The Fifth Child (1988) — Author — 2,411 copies

The Grass Is Singing (1950) 2,211 copies

Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (1979) 1,333 copies

The Good Terrorist (1985) 1,255 copies

The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) 1,188 copies

Martha Quest (1952) 1,058 copies

The Summer Before The Dark (1973) 1,051 copies

Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) 940 copies

The Cleft (2007) 742 copies

The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980) 720 copies

A Proper Marriage (1954) 715 copies

The Four-Gated City (1969) 686 copies

Love, Again (1995) 685 copies

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (1994) 671 copies

The Sirian Experiments: The Report by Ambien II, of the Five (1981) 639 copies

The Sweetest Dream (2001) 630 copies

Mara and Dann (1999) 605 copies

The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels (2003) 590 copies

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1982) 553 copies

The Diaries of Jane Somers (1983) 549 copies

A Ripple from the Storm (1958) 501 copies

Landlocked (1965) 472 copies

Alfred and Emily (2008) 456 copies

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (1987) 429 copies

Ben, in the World (2000) 428 copies

Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (1983) 379 copies

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (1992) 369 copies

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949–1962 (1997) — Author — 366 copies

Stories (1978) 361 copies

Particularly Cats (1967) 336 copies

African Stories (1964) 298 copies

On Cats (2002) 290 copies

Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: A Novel (2005) 286 copies

The Habit of Loving (1957) 256 copies

A Man and Two Women (1963) 245 copies

Time Bites: Views and Reviews (2004) 239 copies

In Pursuit of the English (1960) 231 copies

The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches (1992) 195 copies

Going Home (1957) 177 copies

London Observed: Stories and Sketches (1987) 163 copies

The Story of a Non-marrying Man and Other Stories (1965) 161 copies

To Room Nineteen (1953) 156 copies

Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979) 150 copies

Five (1953) 140 copies

The temptation of Jack Orkney and other stories (1972) 130 copies

Collected African Stories, vol. 1: This Was the Old Chief's Country (1973) 129 copies

The Wind Blows Away Our Words and Other Documents Relating to the Afghan Resistance (1987) 125 copies

The Black Madonna (1964) 108 copies

Winter in July (1951) 98 copies

Collected African Stories, Vol. Two: The Sun Between Their Feet (1973) 88 copies

If the Old Could (1984) 86 copies

Ecclesiastes (Pocket Canon) (1998) — Introduction, some editions — 84 copies

A Small Personal Voice (1994) 82 copies

The Diary of a Good neighbour (1983) 81 copies

The Doris Lessing Reader (1988) 76 copies

Adore: A Novella (P.S.) (2013) 61 copies

Particularly Cats ... And Rufus (1993) 57 copies

Children of Violence: Books 1-5 (1966) 43 copies

The Golden Notebook, book 1 (1962) 39 copies

The Golden Notebook, book 2 (1975) 37 copies

The Old Age of El Magnifico (2000) 37 copies

The Other Woman (1953) 35 copies

The Pit (1996) 28 copies

Through the Tunnel (1955) 23 copies

Rufus : berättelsen om en okuvlig katt (1988) 22 copies

New English Dramatists 1 (1959) 22 copies

Putting the Questions Differently (1996) 20 copies

Doris Lessing: Conversations (Ontario Review Press Critical Series) (1994) 19 copies

Honger (1953) 17 copies

Retreat to innocence (1956) 17 copies

Declaration (1957) — Contributor — 17 copies

Cuentos europeos / To Room Nineteen / The Temptation of Jack Orkneys (Spanish Edition) (2008) 16 copies

Playing the Game (1995) 16 copies

Recitatif / To Room Nineteen (2010) 16 copies

Play with a Tiger (1962) 16 copies

Children of Violence: Books 1-2 (1964) 15 copies

Das Leben meiner Mutter (1988) 14 copies

Victoria et les Staveney (2010) 13 copies

Eldorado (1953) 13 copies

An Old Woman and Her Cat (1972) 13 copies

Gatos ilustres (Spanish Edition) (2014) 11 copies

21 noveller (1986) 11 copies

Filles impertinentes (2014) 11 copies

Particularly Cats and More Cats - Paintings by Anne Robinson (1989) 10 copies

The Day Stalin Died (1957) 10 copies

Pleasure (1957) 9 copies

De verzoeking 9 copies

A Home for the Highland Cattle & The Antheap (Broadview Literary Texts) (2003) 9 copies

Adoration [2013 film] (2013) — Original book — 8 copies

Spies I Have Known and Other Stories (Cascades) (1965) 8 copies

On Not Winning the Nobel Prize (2008) 8 copies

Äkta vara : noveller (1991) 8 copies

Children of Violence: Books 3-4 (1966) 7 copies

Kedilere Dair (2017) 7 copies

19 noveller (1975) 7 copies

Het zingende gras ; Martha Quest ; De zomer voor het donker ; Liefhebben uit gewoonte (1985) 7 copies

Imerohi ei ole müüdav ja teisi jutte (2020) 7 copies

How I Finally Lost My Heart (1953) 7 copies

Made in England (Spanish Edition) (2010) 7 copies

Tangled Web (2007) 7 copies

The Long and the Short and the Tall; Yes and After; Each His Own Wilderness (1968) 6 copies

Three African Stories. (Lernmaterialien) (1989) 6 copies

Min mest självständiga vän : fyra noveller om katter (presentask) (2020) 5 copies

Berättelsen om två hundar (1953) 5 copies

Nine African Stories (Imprint Books) (1968) 5 copies

Gene Aşk (1997) 5 copies

Canopus in Argos / Archive 4 und 5. (2003) 5 copies

Den femte sanningen. D. 1 (1975) 5 copies

The Old Chief Mshlanga (1951) 5 copies

La costumbre de amar (1900) 5 copies

Min fyrbenta vän - Fyra noveller om hundar (2019) 5 copies

Al final de la tormenta (1980) 5 copies

Heyne Jahresband 1994 (1994) 5 copies

Bericht Uber Die Bedrohte Stadt (1991) 4 copies

Between Men (1953) 4 copies

Essential Doris Lessing (2007) 4 copies

Històries de Londres (1996) 4 copies

Złoty notes (2009) 4 copies

INPOPA Anthology 2002 - Poems on playing cards by 3 poets 4 copies

Anilar (2014) 4 copies

El último verano de Mrs. Brown (1974) 4 copies

Przed zstapieniem do piekiel (polish) (2013) 4 copies

Three Stories (1963) 3 copies

Vanaemad LRK 38/2012 3 copies

Ein Jahr im Regent's Park: Werkauswahl Band 14 (Literatur-Literatur) (2012) 3 copies

De nuevo, el amor (2008) 3 copies

Il senso della memoria (2006) 3 copies

Autobiografía (Estuche): Dentro de mí , Un paseo por la sombra (CONTEMPORANEA) (2008) 3 copies

LES MARIAGES ENTRE LES ZONES 3, 4 ET 5 (2017) 3 copies

Buyukanneler (2008) 3 copies

Nouvelles Africaines T3/LA Madone Noire (Ldp Bibl Romans) (2005) 3 copies

Si la vejez pudiera (1988) 3 copies

Our Friend Judith (1953) 3 copies

Die Höhe bekommt uns nicht. Erzählungen. (1989) 3 copies

The Old Chief Mshlanga, No Witchcraft for Sale 2 copies

Uma Velha e o Seu Gato e a História de Dois Cães (2016) 2 copies

Avgrunnen : og andre noveller (1992) 2 copies

O Caderno Dourado (2009) 2 copies

Dintre meu (1997) 2 copies

Report on the threatened city (2013) 2 copies

Salmagundi: A Quarterly of the Humanities & Social Sciences Spring-Summer 2001 Nos. 130-131 (2001) 2 copies

Fourteen Poems, 1/500 copies, signed by the author (1959) 2 copies

Shadows on the wall of the cave : a talk (1994) 2 copies

Passerotti (2010) 2 copies

Der Ameisenhügel (2012) 2 copies

Les enfants de la violence, tome 3 : La cité promise (2010) 2 copies

England versus England [short fiction] (1953) 2 copies

The Old Chief Mshlanga from African Stories (1988) 2 copies

Den femte sanningen. D. 2 (1975) 2 copies

Why a small black child in Zimbabwe stole a book on advanced physics. Englisch und Deutsch 2 copies

Povestiri africane (2008) 2 copies

Belarra kantari (2008) 2 copies

Problems, Myths and Stories (Monograph Series No. 36) (1999) 2 copies

Canopus in Argos: Shikasta, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, the Sirian Experiments, the Sentimental… 2 copies

Tra donne 2 copies

O verão antes da queda (1997) 2 copies

Der Mann, der auf und davon ging. Erzählungen - Band1 (1979) 2 copies

On Dokuz Numarali Oda (2015) 2 copies

Three Plays: Each His Own Wilderness,The Long and the Short and the Tall,Yes, and After 2 copies

Cerco de tierra 2 copies

A ciascuno il suo deserto 2 copies

One of the Short List (1953) 2 copies

Shikasta, en beretning om Jordens undergang (1981) 2 copies

Each Other [short fiction] (1953) 2 copies

A home for the Highland cattle (1953) 2 copies

Mrs. Fortescue (1972) 2 copies

The Temptation of Jack Orkney [short fiction] (1972) 2 copies

A Mild Attack of Locusts [short story] (1957) 2 copies

Children of Violence: Books 1-4 2 copies

Una donna armata: esperimenti siriani: romanzo (2014) 2 copies

No witchcraft for sale;: Stories and short novels (1951) 2 copies

A Woman on a Roof [short fiction] (1953) 2 copies

Le temps mord (French Edition) (2011) 2 copies

Nebenerträge eines ehrbaren Berufs : Erzählungen 2 copies

Agentes Sentimentais, Os 2 copies

Ben en el mundo 1 copy

Mit leiser, persönlicher Stimme (1995) 1 copy

SERISH DASHURI 1 copy

Lähimmäinen (1987) 1 copy

Doris Lessing Three-Book Edition: The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing, The Good Terrorist (English Edition) (2013) 1 copy

Os Diários de Jane Somers - Vol. II 1 copy

views quarterly summer 1963 1 copy

La costumbre de amar. Relatos escogidos. (1983) 1 copy

Kui vanad suudaksid : [romaan] (2004) 1 copy

ME E EMBLA ENDERR 1 copy

Le cinquième enfant de Doris Lessing (1 septembre 1993) Poche (1600) 1 copy

Veðraþytur 1 copy

Nurodymai žengiantiems į pragarą: [romanas] (2019) 1 copy

O coborire in infern 1 copy

Francois Mauriac 1 copy

L'invention du représentant de la planète 8 (2019) 1 copy

老首長の国――ドリス・レッシングアフリカ小説集 (2008) 1 copy

Karleksbarnet 1 copy

Die Schmuckschatulle. Die schönsten Erzählungen (2008) 1 copy

Le Carnet d'or de Doris Lessing (1980) Poche 1 copy

Ellujäänu mälestused roman 1 copy

Presentask med fyra Nobelnoveller I (2016) 1 copy

Schritte im schatten. Autobiographie 1949 - 1962 1 copy

Unter der haut. Autobiographie 1919 - 1949. Aus dem Engl. von Karen Nölle-Fischer 1 copy

Me Set , Includes; a Ripple From the Storm, a Proper Marriage , Landlocked, a Four Gated City (1973) 1 copy

To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories Volume One: To Room Nineteen v. 1 (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Doris Lessing… 1 copy

第五個孩子 [Di wu ge hai zi] 1 copy

The Fourt-Gated City 1 copy

Liebesgeschichten (1992) 1 copy

Ben en el Mundo [Ben in the World]: Continuación de El Quinto Hijo [Sequel to The Fifth Child] 1 copy

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8: An Opera in Three Acts — Author — 1 copy

No title 1 copy

Kærlighedens teater (1999) 1 copy

Turku Soyluyor Otlar 1 copy

Ljeto prije sutona 1 copy

Collected African Strories: Volume 2 The sun between their feet 1 copy

No Witchcraft for Sale and the New Man from African Stories (Sac 1167) (1986) 1 copy

ALTIN DEFTER (2015) 1 copy

A posebno, macke (2007) 1 copy

A Reader's Guide to the Golden Notebook/Under My Skin (HarperCollins Reader's Guide) (1995) 1 copy

Old Chief Mshlanga (Doris Lessing Reads) (1983) 1 copy

Doris Lessing: Border Crossings (Continuum Literary Studies) (2009) 1 copy

Londonske skice (2009) 1 copy

Hunger Erzählung 1 copy

Dagbók góðrar grannkonu 1 copy

I libri della Bibbia. Qohèlet o Ecclesiaste 1 copy

Novellas : Les grand-mères ; Victoria et les Staveney ; Un enfant de l'amour (2016) 1 copy

Hayatta Kalma Güncesi 1 copy

Evlenmeyen Adamın Hikâyesi 1 copy

Instruktion fr̲ nedstigning i helvetet 1 copy

Las cárceles que elegimos (Spanish Edition) 1 copy

Memórias de um Sobrevivente - ed. autografada 1 copy

L ECHO LOINTAIN DE L ORAGE- LES ENFANTS DE LA VIOLANEC- TOME 2 1 copy

Et stort spørgsmålstegn. Interviews og samtaler med Doris Lessing 1974-1984 (1984) 1 copy

Os Casamentos entre as Zonas 3, 4 e 5 (Canopus em Argos: Arquivos [II]) 1 copy

Old John's Place [short fiction] (1951) 1 copy

'Leopard' George [short fiction] (1951) 1 copy

The De Wets Come To Kloof Grange [short fiction] (1951) 1 copy

The Nuisance [short fiction] (1951) 1 copy

The Second Hut [short fiction] (1951) 1 copy

Eldorada [short fiction] (1953) 1 copy

A Sunrise on the Veld [short fiction] (1951) 1 copy

Little Tembi [short fiction] (1951) 1 copy

The New Man [short fiction] (1963) 1 copy

An Unposted Love Letter [short fiction] (1972) 1 copy

The Pig [short fiction] (1964) 1 copy

Flavours of Exile [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

Flight [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

Getting off the Altitude [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

A Letter From Home [short fiction] (1953) 1 copy

Lucy Grange [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

Plants and Girls [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

A Road to the Big City [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

A Year in Regent's Park [short fiction] (1972) 1 copy

Side Benifits of an Honourable Profession [short fiction] (1972) 1 copy

The Trinket Box [short fiction] (1964) 1 copy

The Woman [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

The Good Apprentice 1 copy

This Was the Old Chief's Country and The Sun Between Their Feet 1 copy

Five: 5 short novels -- A Home for Highland Cattle; The Other Woman; Eldorado; The Antheap & Hunger 1 copy

Wine [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

The Eye of God in Paradise [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

He [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

Two Potters [short fiction] (1953) 1 copy

A Room [short fiction] (1953) 1 copy

Report on the Threatened City [short fiction] (1972) 1 copy

Dialogue [short fiction] (1953) 1 copy

Homage for Isaac Babel [short fiction] (1953) 1 copy

Lions, Leaves, Roses ... [short fiction] (1972) 1 copy

Not a Very Nice Story [short fiction] (1972) 1 copy

Notes For a Case History [short fiction] (1953) 1 copy

The Other Garden [short fiction] (1972) 1 copy

Out of the Fountain [short fiction] (1972) 1 copy

Outside the Ministry [short fiction] (1953) 1 copy

The Sun Between Their Feet [short fiction] (1953) 1 copy

The Words He Said [short fiction] (1957) 1 copy

Canopus dans Argo : archives, Tome 5 : Les agents sentimentaux de l'empire volyen (2020) 1 copy

El quadern daurat, vol. I 1 copy

Kjighetens teater : roman (1996) 1 copy

The Black Madona [short fiction] 1 copy

The Story of a Non-Marrying Man [short fiction] 1 copy

Hunger [short fiction] 1 copy

Spies I Have Known [short fiction] 1 copy

No Witchcraft for Sale [short fiction] 1 copy

Two mothers (Italian Edition) (2013) 1 copy

El quadern daurat, vol. II 1 copy

Tage am Strand Erzählung (2013) 1 copy

Un'ora nella macchia batte qualsiasi libro (2013) 1 copy

Worum es wirklich geht: Stories (2019) 1 copy

The Antheap [short fiction] 1 copy

L'estate prima del buio 1 copy

Cehenneme Inis Talimatnamesi (2020) 1 copy

Lessing, Doris Archive 1 copy

IL DIARIO DI JANE SOMERS DI DORIS LESSING - UNIVERSALE ECONOMICA FELTRINELLI 1988 (1988) 1 copy

Canopus Im Argos: Archive. Betr.: Kolonisierter Planet 5 1 copy

Innestengt (1982) 1 copy

Tage am Strand (2014) 1 copy

Traitors [short fiction] (1964) 1 copy

Die Frau auf dem Dach. Erzählungen - Band 2 (1982) 1 copy

C'est ainsi qu'un jeune noir du Zimbabwe a volé un manuel de physique supérieure : Suivi de… (2010) 1 copy

La fantascienza di Playboy - parte prima (1998) 1 copy

In pursuit of love 1 copy

The golden notebook excerpts 1 copy

Love of reading [in: Literacy is not enough, LITERACY,LNE] 1 copy

To Room Nineteen [short story] 1 copy

Ein nicht abgeschickter Liebesbrief. Großdruck. Erzählungen. (1994) 1 copy

Le carnet d'or et autres romans (2011) 1 copy

Das Tagebuch der Jane Somers Roman 1 copy

Prediker (1999) 1 copy

Drei Werke in einem Band: Unter der Haut, Das fünfte Kind, Ein süßer Traum (2013) 1 copy

Mitra 1 copy

Liebhaber meiner Phantasie 1 copy

A love child 1 copy

The reason for it 1 copy

Jane Somers (1992) 1 copy

Jane Somers : zwei Romane in einem Band. 1 copy

مذكرات جارة طيبة 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Lessing, Doris
Legal name: Lessing, Doris May
Other names: Somers, Jane
Taylor, Doris May (birth name)
Birthdate: 1919-10-22
Date of death: 2013-11-17
Burial location: Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore, UK (cremated)
Gender: female
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Kermanshah, Iran (Persia)
Place of death: London, England, UK
Places of residence: England, UK
Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran)
Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Education: Dominican Convent High School, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare ∙ Zimbabwe)
Occupations: novelist
short-story writer
poet
playwright
librettist
Awards and honors: Nobel Prize (2007)
Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature (2001)
Guest of Honor, World Science Fiction Convention (Conspiracy ∙ Brighton ∙ UK)
Order of the Companions of Honour (1999)
Order of the British Empire (Officer)
David Cohen British Literature Prize (2001) (show all 15)
Premio Príncipe de Asturias (2001)
Golden PEN Award (2002)
Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1981)
Shakespeare Prize (1982)
Premio Grinzane Cavour (1989)
Premio Internacional, Cataluna (1999)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2005, 2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1974)
Order of Mapungubwe (2008)
Agent: Jonathan Clowes Ltd.

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Reviews

The Fifth Child (Vintage International) by Doris Lessing

not at all what i expected, definitely interested in reading more of Lessing's work

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lazalot | 76 other reviews | May 25, 2024 |

The Golden Notebook: A Novel by Doris Lessing

Read this one for my book club, and had a lot of mixed thoughts about it. The portrait of what it was like for women during that period of time, just before the second wave of feminism ramped up, was interesting—although having grown up in a household where that was definitely a part of the goings-on, it wasn't news to me. Also the glimpse into the politics of the British Communist Party, which I knew less about. But the nonstop introspection wore on me a bit—the deep dive into unhappy, dissatisfied hearts and minds was a lot to sustain over 600-odd pages. Though it also made me think of my mom a lot, as she lived through that time and that dissatisfaction, which was necessary for her to get to the life she wanted to live. The book was on our shelves growing up, and I do wish I could talk to her about it now.

Ultimately I'm glad I read it. It sparked a great conversation, lots of very different thoughts and opinions, so it was a great book club choice in that sense. I'm happy enough to leave the characters behind, but I keep thinking about it at odd moments, so in that sense it was also a worthwhile reading project (but it did feel like a project).… (more)

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lisapeet | 92 other reviews | Mar 24, 2024 |