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After moving to London Martha finds herself being drawn toward a Bohemian way of life

Hardcover:

9780809591732, titled "The Four-Gated City" | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $35.00
9780394425184, titled "The Four-Gated City" | Random House Inc, May 1, 1969, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After moving to London Martha finds herself being drawn toward a Bohemian way of life

Paperback:

9780060976675, titled "The Four-Gated City" | Reissue edition (Perennial, October 1, 1995), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: After moving to London, Martha Quest finds herself being drawn toward a Bohemian way of life
9780553228113 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, June 1, 1980), cover price $4.95 | also contains Barbie Spring 2016 Movie Chapter Book

Miscellaneous:

9780062047946, titled "The Four-gated City" | Harpercollins, October 5, 2010, cover price $12.99

The distinguished novelist reveals her life among the felines in this true tale about the nature of all living things, of birth and death, loss and discovery, brutality and gentleness, and love and hate

Paperback:

9788476680124 | Laia, May 1, 1986, cover price $9.25 | About this edition: The distinguished novelist reveals her life among the felines in this true tale about the nature of all living things, of birth and death, loss and discovery, brutality and gentleness, and love and hate

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The author recounts her first journey back to Africa, where she grew up, relating how her return to Southern Rhodesia in 1956 confirmed her love for Africa and her hatred of the 'white supremacy' espoused by its ruling class

Paperback:

9780060976309 | Perennial, April 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The author recounts her first journey back to Africa, where she grew up, relating how her return to Southern Rhodesia in 1956 confirmed her love for Africa and her hatred of the 'white supremacy' espoused by its ruling class

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The experiences of two women provide the framework for an intense literary study of liberated womanhood, in a new edition--which includes an author biography and publication history--of a novel originally published in 1962. Original. NYT. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780809591466 | Borgo Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, it was brought to a wider public by the Nobel Prize award to Doris Lessing in 2007.
9780671287702 | Reissue edition (Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1984), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The experiences of two women provide the framework for this intense literary study of liberated womanhood

Paperback:

9780060931407 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The experiences of two women provide the framework for an intense literary study of liberated womanhood, in a new edition--which includes an author biography and publication history--of a novel originally published in 1962
9780060975906 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 1994), cover price $14.00 | also contains Where the Echo Began: And Other Oral Traditions from Southwestern Alaska | About this edition: Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks.
9780553262100, titled "Golden Notebook" | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, December 1, 1979), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The experiences of two women provide the framework for this intense literary study of liberated womanhood

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559946230 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, May 1, 1992, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, it was brought to a wider public by the Nobel Prize award to Doris Lessing in 2007.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559940542 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, September 1, 1989, cover price $9.95

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In her mid-thirties, intelligent, resourceful, and sensitive, Alice Mellings is the organizer, the mother-figure of a vagabond radical group, some of whose members become active terrorists, confronting the group with dissension, real danger, and the necessity of making crucial decisions.

Hardcover:

9780394543390 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1985, cover price $4.98 | About this edition: In her mid-thirties, intelligent, resourceful, and sensitive, Alice Mellings is the organizer, the mother-figure, of a vagabond radical group, some of whose members become active terrorists, confronting the group with dissension, real danger, and the nece

Paperback:

9780394746296 | Vintage Books, October 1, 1986, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In her mid-thirties, intelligent, resourceful, and sensitive, Alice Mellings is the organizer, the mother-figure of a vagabond radical group, some of whose members become active terrorists, confronting the group with dissension, real danger, and the necessity of making crucial decisions

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786115303 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 1999), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In her mid-thirties, intelligent, resourceful, and sensitive, Alice Mellings is the organizer, the mother-figure of a vagabond radical group, some of whose members become active terrorists, confronting the group with dissension, real danger, and the necessity of making crucial decisions.

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Miscellaneous:

9780061847660 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99

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Product Description: Doris Lessing is one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of the second half of the twentieth century. With the four short novels in this collection, she once again proves herself unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.

Hardcover:

9780060530105 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 2004), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Explores the complexities of the human condition in four short novels that include the title novella, 'Victoria and the Staveneys,' 'The Reason for It,' and 'A Love Child,' in which a soldier becomes convinced that a child resulted from his brief wartimelove affair.

Paperback:

9780786272228 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 3, 2005), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Doris Lessing is one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of the second half of the twentieth century.
9780060530112 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 2005), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Explores the complexities of the human condition in four short novels that include the title novella, 'Victoria and the Staveneys,' 'The Reason for It,' and 'A Love Child,' in which a soldier becomes convinced that a child resulted from his brief wartimelove affair.

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In colonial South Africa, the wife of a poor former and an unusual black servant are drawn into a dance of attraction and revulsion that eventually leads to violence. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780690007473 | Revised edition (Ty Crowell Co, April 1, 1975), cover price $7.95

Paperback:

9780007594467, titled "The Grass Is Singing" | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, May 1, 2014, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Grass Is Singing
9780007498802, titled "The Grass Is Singing" | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, January 17, 2013, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Grass Is Singing
9780582417892, titled "The Grass Is Singing" | Prentice Hall, February 1, 2000, cover price $9.00
9780060953461, titled "The Grass Is Singing" | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 2000), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In colonial South Africa, the wife of a poor former and an unusual black servant are drawn into a dance of attraction and revulsion that eventually leads to violence.
9780452261198, titled "The Grass Is Singing" | Reissue edition (Plume, March 1, 1995), cover price $12.95

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An anthology of seventeen stories explores different types of love and various aspects of the human need for companionship and affection

Paperback:

9780452257047 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, September 1, 1983), cover price $8.95 | also contains Intelligent Transportation Systems in Work Zones: Integrated Work Zone Systems for Improving Travel Conditions and Safety
9780445083905, titled "The Habit of Loving" | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, October 1, 1982), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: An anthology of seventeen stories explores different types of love and various aspects of the human need for companionship and affection

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Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

Paperback:

9788423334834 | Poc edition (Destino, May 1, 2003), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD
9788423334834 | Poc edition (Destino, May 1, 2003), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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Product Description: By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail - a life of glamour and refinement that she naively believed England offered everyone...read more

Paperback:

9780445083707 | Reissue edition (Popular Library, July 1, 1976), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

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Offers a realistic portrait of Londoners living in a working class rooming house, including a con man, a woman who flings herself down two flights of stairs to avoid having another child, and a prostitute

Paperback:

9780060976293 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Offers a realistic portrait of Londoners living in a working class rooming house, including a con man, a woman who flings herself down two flights of stairs to avoid having another child, and a prostitute

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Focuses on a professor's unusual adventure fantasies as he experiences a mental breakdown in a hospital

Paperback:

9788471789396 | Argos Vergara, June 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Focuses on a professor's unusual adventure fantasies as he experiences a mental breakdown in a hospital

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When Martha Quest's second marriage begins to fall apart, she fights her growing disillusionment by engaging in a love affair that proves to be only temporarily successful

Paperback:

9780060976651 | Reissue edition (Perennial, October 1, 1995), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When Martha Quest's second marriage begins to fall apart, she fights her growing disillusionment by engaging in a love affair that proves to be only temporarily successful

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Widowed for many years, sixty-five-year-old Sarah finds herself unexpectedly in love again, first with a seductive actor thirty-seven years her junior and then with the more mature play director Henry, making her reexamine her own personal history of love. Reprint. PW.

Hardcover:

9781568953410 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, July 1, 1996), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A story of love and desire in an older woman finds sixty-five-year-old Sarah Durham in relationships with two younger men and follows her struggles with the feelings of her youth
9780060176877 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A story of love and desire in an older woman finds sixty-five-year-old Sarah Durham in relationships with two younger men and follows her struggles with the feelings of her youth

Paperback:

9780060927967 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 1997), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A story of love and desire in an older woman finds sixty-five-year-old Sarah Durham in relationships with two younger men and follows her struggles with the feelings of her youth

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745173672 | Chivers Audio Books, December 1, 1991, cover price $84.95

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Miscellaneous:

9780061849718 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99

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Planet 8, a prosperous world with intelligent, vital inhabitants, is transformed by an Ice Age, a change that causes a critical variation in lifestyle and a drastic reappraisal of the meaning and value of life

Hardcover:

9780394519067 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1982, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Planet 8, a prosperous world with intelligent, vital inhabitants, is transformed by an Ice Age, a change that causes a critical variation in lifestyle and a drastic reappraisal of the meaning and value of life

Paperback:

9780679720157, titled "Making of the Representative for Planet 8" | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1988), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Planet 8, a prosperous world with intelligent, vital inhabitants, is transformed by an Ice Age, a change that causes a critical variation in lifestyle and a drastic reappraisal of the meaning and value of life

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Product Description: a man, his wife and their best friend in a triangle of passion and betrayal

Paperback:

9780445030756 | Fawcett Books, July 1, 1976, cover price $2.75 | also contains At a Loss: Learning How to Comfort Others Through the Journey of Grief Using Scripture and Prayer | About this edition: a man, his wife and their best friend in a triangle of passion and betrayal

Miscellaneous:

9780061868559 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $10.99

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In a distant future plagued by drought, a sevenyearold girl, accompanied by her brother, encounters a variety of strange peoples in her insatiable thirst for selfknowledge. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780060182946 | Harperflamingo, January 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In a distant future plagued by drought, a seven-year-old girl, accompanied by her brother, encounters a variety of strange peoples in her insatiable thirst for self-knowledge

Paperback:

9780060930561 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In a distant future plagued by drought, a seven-year-old girl, accompanied by her brother, encounters a variety of strange peoples in her insatiable thirst for self-knowledge.

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Martha Quest, a passionate and intelligent young British woman growing up on a farm in Africa, rebels against her snobbish parents as she determines to live her life to the fullest. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780809591695 | Borgo Pr, September 1, 1970, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780060959692 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 2001), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Martha Quest, a passionate and intelligent young British woman growing up on a farm in Africa, rebels against her snobbish parents as she determines to live her life to the fullest.
9780060976668 | Perennial, October 1, 1995, cover price $14.00 | also contains Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom | About this edition: Martha Quest, a young British woman growing up on a farm in Africa, rebels against her snobbish parents
9780452265769 | Reissue edition (Plume, May 1, 1993), cover price $11.00

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In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city's disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy

Hardcover:

9780394496337, titled "The Memoirs of a Survivor" | Random House Inc, May 1, 1975, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city's disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy

Paperback:

9780394757599, titled "The Memoirs of a Survivor" | Vintage Books, April 1, 1988, cover price $15.00
9780394757599, titled "The Memoirs of a Survivor" | Vintage Books, April 1, 1988, cover price $15.00
9780553228175 | Bantam Books, July 1, 1981, cover price $3.95 | also contains Barbie Spring 2016 Movie Pictureback

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