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Lessing started to write when she was seven years old and believes that this tension helped her develop as a writer.. "By the time I was 5 I'd already done all this travelling, starting from ...

Doris Lessing. NY: Edward Arnold (Routledge, Chapman & Hall), 1990 ... especially Shikasta (1979), is that she identifies Canopean attitudes too closely with those of the author and fails to see that ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz to discuss The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing’s formally brilliant and startlingly ...