@booklet {5945, title = {The Cleft}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Fourth Estate}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Novel of prehistory with eutopian elements. An isolated, simple, eutopian, all female society where women who give birth solely to female children suddenly begin to produce Monsters (men). The story is told from the point of view of a man in classical Rome many centuries later and traces the relations of the women and the men as they adjust to each other.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {11938, title = {Mara and Dann: An Adventure}, year = {1999}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 407 pp.

}, month = {1999}, pages = {407 pp.}, publisher = {HarperCollins}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The setting is a post-apocalyptic climate change dystopia in which war, a new ice age, and drought have left only the remains of cities and people are migrating north across Ifrik (Africa). Mara and Dann are brother and sister who have been abducted and the novel follows their experiences as the age into adulthood. A sequel is General Dann and Mara\’s Daughter, the Griot and the Snow Dog. London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 282 pp. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 282 pp. In this novel, Mara dies in childbirth and Dann, is now a respected General who is expected to bring order to an ice covered Yerrup (Europe) inhabited by warring tribes of refugees. Both novels place considerable emphasis on personal relationships.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {4649, title = {Playing the Game}, year = {1995}, month = {1995}, publisher = {HarperCollins}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Graphic novel depicting an urban dystopia and attempts to escape it.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {3444, title = {Canopus in Argos: Archives. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire}, year = {1983}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

}, month = {1983}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The last of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 (2) and 1982 Lessing. This volume is a satire on the power of emotion, particularly as reflected in speech, to overwhelm reason. A Canopean is infected with \"undulant Rhetoric\" and treated in the Hospital for Rhetorical Diseases.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {3367, title = {Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8}, year = {1982}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

}, month = {1982}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The fourth of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also, 1979, 1980 (2) and 1983 Lessing. This novel presents the coming destruction of Planet 8 as it enters a terminal ice age and the positive way the people respond to the crisis. An opera with music by Philip Glass was created based on the novel and premiered in Houston, TX in July 1988. The libretto was published as Philip Glass and Doris Lessing, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. An Opera in Three Acts. Based on the Novel by Doris Lessing. [Bryn Mawr, PA]: Dunvagen Music Publishers, 1988.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {3188, title = {Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three)}, year = {1980}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The second of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume cross zone marriages bring together opposites.\ An opera with music by Philip Glass (b. 1937) was created based on the novel with the libretto by Lessing. The first performance was in German in Heidelberg May 10, 1997, trans. Saskia M. Wesnigk. The first performance in English was June 7, 2001, in Chicago.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {3189, title = {Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments. The Report by Ambian II, of the Five}, year = {1980}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The third of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume Ambian II, a Sirian bureaucrat, is used by the Canopeans to introduce the Sirians, who believe themselves the superior beings, to higher ways.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {3101, title = {Canopus in Argos: Archives. Re: Colonised Planet 5. Shikasta. Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days}, year = {1979}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.

}, month = {1979}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The first of five volumes detailing the history and future of earth and other zones. See also 1980 (2), 1982, and 1983 Lessing. The Canopeans are the most advance beings and watch over others, interfering from time to time, not always successfully. Colonised Planet 5 appears to be Earth.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {2726, title = {The Memoirs of a Survivor}, year = {1974}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.

}, month = {1974}, publisher = {The Octagon Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {2224, title = {The Four-Gated City}, year = {1969}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.

}, month = {1969}, publisher = {MacGibbon \& Kee}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The \"Appendix\" (560-614) presents a future, post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Telepathy.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Zimbabwean author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} }