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Synopsis
Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories—a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer—is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life.
This is Doris Lessing’s Africa—where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa.
First published in 1965, and out of print since the 1990s, this collection contains much of Ms. Lessing’s most extraordinary work. It is a brilliant portrait of a world that is vital to all of us—perceived by an artist of the first rank writing with passion and honesty about her native land.
African Stories includes every story Doris Lessing has written about all of her first collection, This Was the Old Chief’s Country; the four tales about Africa from Five; the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women; and four stories featured only in this edition.
African Stories represents some of Doris Lessing’s best work—and is an essential book by one of the twentieth century’s most important authors.
Table oc
The Black Madonna
The Trinket Box
The Pig
Traitors
The Old Chief Mshlanga
A Sunrise on the Veld
No Witchcraft for Sale
The Second Hut
The Nuisance
The De Wets Come to Kloof Grange
Little Tembi
Old John's Place
'Leopard' George
Winter in July
A Home for the Highland Cattle
Eldorado
The Antheap
Hunger
The Words He Said
Lucy Grange
A Mild Attack of Locusts
Flavours of Exile
Getting Off the Altitude
A Road to the Big City
Flight
Plants and Girls
The Sun Between Their Feet
A Letter from Home
The New Man
The Story of Two Dogs
The Story of a Non-marrying Man*
Spies I have Known*
*Not included in the original edition
The American edition contained more stories. The complete British edition of Doris Lessing's African short stories was published by Michael Joseph in 1973 in two
This Was The Old Chief's Country - Collected African Stories, Volume 1 (not to be confused with the 1951 edition of the same name)
The Sun Between Their Feet - Collected African Stories, Volume 2
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About the Author
Doris May Lessing is a British novelist, poet, playwright, biographer, and short story writer. She is the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her works include: The Grass Is Singing; a five novel sequence collectively entitled Children of Violence; The Golden Notebook; The Good Terrorist; and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives.
Review
"Her sense of setting is so immediate, the touch and taste of her continent is so strong, that Africa seems to become the universe." (Newsweek)
"...the author's love of that land and yearning for it are manifest; her description brings it to life with rare brilliance." (Saturday Review)
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