TY - ABST T1 - The Cleft Y1 - 2007 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mara and Dann: An Adventure Y1 - 1999 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Playing the Game Y1 - 1995 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Y1 - 1983 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Y1 - 1982 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) Y1 - 1980 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments. The Report by Ambian II, of the Five Y1 - 1980 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 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 Y1 - 1979 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memoirs of a Survivor Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.

PB - The Octagon Press CY - London N1 -

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Four-Gated City Y1 - 1969 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

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

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London N1 -

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

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