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Through the Tunnel

Vacationing at the seashore, a young boy's endurance is tested to the limit when he tries to swim through an underwater tunnel

By Doris May Lessing

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9780886823467 | Creative Co, June 1, 1989, cover price $21.35 | About this edition: Vacationing at the seashore, a young boy's endurance is tested to the limit when he tries to swim through an underwater tunnel

Golden Notebook/Excerpts

By Doris May Lessing

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

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

Particularly Cats ...and Rufus

The distinguished novelist reveals her life among the felines in portraits of the cats that she has known

By Doris May Lessing and James McMullan (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780394586717 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The distinguished novelist reveals her life among the felines in portraits of the cats that she has known

Love, Again

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.

By Doris May Lessing

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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

The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches

Product Description: The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the piece are set in contemporary London, a city the author loves for its variety, its diversity, its transitoriness, the way it connects the life of animals and birds in the parks to the streets...read more

By Doris May Lessing

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9780060168537 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Stories centered around London feature a mother and daughter's reconciliation, a couple arguing over their daughter's independence, and a pregnant girl

Paperback:

9780060924171 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 1993), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing.

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

The author writes about her homeland--from which she was exiled by the former all-white government--discussing political corruption, AIDS, and communal living

By Doris May Lessing

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Hardcover:

9780060169374 | Limited edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 1992), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.

9780060168544 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author writes about her homeland--from which she was exiled by the former all-white government--discussing political corruption, AIDS, communal living, and more

Paperback:

9780060924331 | Reprint edition (Perennial, August 1, 1993), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The author writes about her homeland--from which she was exiled by the former all-white government--discussing political corruption, AIDS, and communal living

Canopus in Argos: Archives

By Doris May Lessing

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Paperback:

9780679741848 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 1992), cover price $25.00

Doris Lessing: Conversations

Collects conversations with the writer spanning the 1960s to the 1990s

By Earl G. Ingersoll (editor) and Doris May Lessing

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Paperback:

9780865380806 | Ontario Review Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $13.95 | also contains Doris Lessing: Conversations | About this edition: Collects conversations with the writer spanning the 1960s to the 1990s

Der Sommer Vor Der Dunkelheit/the Summer Before the Dark

By Doris May Lessing

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Paperback:

9783499129803 | Distribooks Inc, June 1, 1994, cover price $10.95

Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949

The first volume of the autobiography of one of the century's most acclaimed writers chronicles Lessing's childhood in Rhodesia, her move to England, her abandonment of her two children, and her beginnings as a writer. Reprint. $25,000 ad/promo. NYT.

By Doris May Lessing

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Hardcover:

9780809591749 | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The author of African Laughter recounts her childhood in Persia and Southern Rhodesia, difficult adolescence, two marriages, political activity, and growth as a writer.

9780060171506 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author recounts her childhood in Persia and Southern Rhodesia, difficult adolescence, two marriages, political activity, and growth as a writer

Paperback:

9780060926649 | Perennial, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author recounts her childhood in Persia and Southern Rhodesia, difficult adolescence, two marriages, political activity, and growth as a writer

Playing the Game

By Doris May Lessing and David Lloyd (illustrator)

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9780061050077 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1995, cover price $6.99 | also contains A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

In Pursuit of the English: A Documentry

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

By Doris May Lessing

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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

Walking in the Shade: My Autobiography, 1949-1962

In the second volume of her autobiography, Lessing details her membership in the Communist Party in London, her bohemian lifestyle in the 1950s, views on relationships, attitudes of men toward women, love, and sex, and profiles of such famous as people as Nelson Algren, Henry Kissinger, and others.

By Doris May Lessing

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9780060182953 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Lessing details her membership in the communist party in London, her bohemian lifestyle in the 1950s, views on relationships, attitudes of men toward women, and love and sex

Walking in the Shade: 1949-1962

In the second volume of her autobiography, Lessing details her membership in the Communist Party in London, her bohemian lifestyle in the 1950s, views on relationships, attitudes of men toward women, love, and sex, and profiles such famous people as Nelson Algren, Henry Kissinger, and others. Reprint.

By Doris May Lessing

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Paperback:

9780060929565 | Perennial, October 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In the second volume of her autobiography, Lessing details her membership in the Communist Party in London, her bohemian lifestyle in the 1950s, views on relationships, attitudes of men toward women, love, and sex, and profiles such famous people as Nelson Algren, Henry Kissinger, and others.

Mara and Dann: An Adventure

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.

By Doris May Lessing

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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.

Problems, Myths and Stories

By Doris May Lessing

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Paperback:

9780904674286 | Cultural Research, January 1, 1999, cover price $8.00

De Nuevo El Amor

By Doris May Lessing and Marta Pessarrodona (trans)

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Paperback:

9788483280256 | Planeta Pub Corp, March 1, 1999, cover price $14.95

Ecclesiastes Or, the Preacher: Authorised King James Version

By Doris May Lessing (introduced by)

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Paperback:

9780802136145 | Grove Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $2.95

Tales of Kalila and Dimna: Classic Fables from India

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By Margaret Kilrenny (illustrator), Doris May Lessing (introduced by) and Ramsay Wood

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Paperback:

9780892818167 | Inner Traditions, March 1, 2000, cover price $14.95

This Was the Old Chief's Country

This is the first volume of Doris Lessing's 'Collected African Stories'. She portrays the helpless collisions and alienations of the races in South Africa.

By Doris May Lessing

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Hardcover:

9780002257053 | New edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, March 6, 2000), cover price $28.30 | About this edition: This is the first volume of Doris Lessing's 'Collected African Stories'.

Particularly Cats

The author examines her life through stories of the cats she has cared for. (view table of contents)

By Doris May Lessing

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9781580800365 | Burford Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author examines her life through stories of the cats she has cared for.

Ben, in the World: The Sequel to "the Fifth Child"

A sequel to The Fifth Child finds a grown Ben in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, who enlists the unknowing Ben to help him transport drugs to Paris. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

By Doris May Lessing

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Hardcover:

9780002261951 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, November 1, 2000, cover price $55.01

9780060196288, titled "Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child" | Harpercollins, July 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Ben, now grown and in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, unknowingly helps them transport drugs to Paris.

Paperback:

9780060934651, titled "Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child" | 1 edition (Perennial, August 1, 2001), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A sequel to The Fifth Child finds a grown Ben in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, who enlists the unknowing Ben to help him transport drugs to Paris.

LA Buena Terrorista / The Good Terrorist

By Doris May Lessing

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Paperback:

9788466305297 | Punto De Lectura, November 1, 2001, cover price $8.99

Shikasta

By Doris May Lessing

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Hardcover:

9788445074497 | Minotauro Ediciones Avd, March 1, 2003, cover price $30.95

The Fifth Child

Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll.

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Hardcover:

9780007154395 | New edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, March 20, 2003), cover price $16.35 | also contains The Fifth Child | About this edition: Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values.

9780394571058 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Amid the turbulent atmosphere of the late 1960s, Harriet and David Lovatt manage to keep their family safely detached from outside turmoil--until the birth of their fifth child, who is abnormally strong, demanding, even violent

Paperback:

9780679721826 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1989), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Ben, now grown and in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, unknowingly helps them transport drugs to Paris.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781856956673 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, April 1, 1995), cover price $51.95

Prebinding:

9781439513255 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $21.95

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