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It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. - Doris Lessing Attribution: Doris Lessing (b. 1919), British novelist. The Grass Is Singing, ch. 2 (1950).

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Doris Lessing

Titles by Doris Lessing:

• Debbie and Julie
• Love, Again
• Play with a Tiger
• The Golden Notebook
• The Good Terrorist
• The Grass Is Singing
• The Summer before the Dark
• Through the Tunnel
• To Room Nineteen

eNotes:

• Free Stories: The Shorter Fiction of Doris Lessing (Through the Tunnel)
• Doris Lessing’s Feminist Plays (Play with a Tiger)
• Doris Lessing, Women Playwrights, and the Politics of Dramatic Form (Play with a Tiger)
• Doris Lessing (Play with a Tiger)
• Doris Lessing (To Room Nineteen)
• Doris Lessing (Debbie and Julie)
• Doris Lessing (Through the Tunnel)

Critical Companions:

• Lessing, Doris (Feminism)

Encyclopedia:

• Lessing, Doris May (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Doris Lessing (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Doris Lessing (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Literary Criticism:

• Lessing, Doris (Short Story Criticism)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 22) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 15) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 94) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 10) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 170) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Lessing, Doris (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Doris Lessing publishes The Golden Notebook
• Doris Lessing publishes The Grass Is Singing
• Doris Lessing is born