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The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know—Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel—the quality of philosophy. - Doris Lessing Attribution: Doris Lessing (b. 1919), British novelist. Anna Wulf, in The Golden Notebook, p. 53, Simon and Schuster (1962).

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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

Critical Companions:

• Lessing, Doris (Feminism)

eNotes:

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

Encyclopedia:

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

Salem on Literature:

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

Literary Criticism:

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

Calendar of Literary Facts:

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