In Pursuit of the English - Doris Lessing [112]
—Orville Prescott, New York Times
“No other writer, from any continent, has this raceless, classless fellowship com bined with total physical receptiveness…. Mrs. Lessing has always been more than a regional moral messenger; she is a prospector into the minds, spirit and senses of all, imaginatively at home anywhere.”
—The Times (London)
“A magnificent book, quite staggering in its penetration of the ordinary working-class Londoner’s nature.”
—Cyril Dunn, Washington Post
ALSO BY DORIS LESSING
NOVELS
The Grass Is Singing
The Golden Notebook
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
The Summer Before the Dark
The Memoirs of a Survivor
The Diaries of Jane Somers:
The Diary of a Good Neighbor
If the Old Could.
The Good Terrorist
The Fifth Child
Love. Again
“CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES” SERIES
Re: Colonized Planet 5. Shikasta
The Marriages Between Zones
Three. Four and Five
The Sirian Experiments
The Making of the
Representative for Planet 8
Documents Relating to the
Sentimental Agents in the
Volyen Empire
“CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE” SERIES
Martha Quest
A Proper Marriage
A Ripple From the Storm
Landlocked
The Four-Gated City
SHORT STORIES
This Was the Old Chiefs Country
The Habit of Loving
A Man and Two Women
The Temptation of Jack Orkney
and Other Stories
Stories
African Stories
The Real Thing: Stories and
Sketches
OPERA
The Making of the
Representative for Planet 8
(Music by Philip Glass)
POETRY
Fourteen Poems
NONFICTION
Particularly Cats
Going Home
A Small Personal Voice
Prisons We Choose to Live
Inside
The Wind Blows Away Our Words
Particularly Cats … And Rufus
African Laughter
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Under My Skin
The Doris Lessing Reader
Copyright
This book was originally published in Great Britain by MacGibbon & Kee Ltd. in 1960. First U.S. edition was published by Simon & Schuster in 1961.
IN PURSUIT OF THE ENGLISH. Copyright © 1960 by Doris Lessing.
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