Play with a Tiger (Playscripts)

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0706700163 / ISBN 13: 9780706700169

Published by Davis-Poynter, London, 1972

About this Item

First UK edition, 1972. Very Good in wraps. Light edgewear to corners, sticker pull on front cover. Previous owner's ink signature on title page. A clean, lightly worn copy.

Seller Inventory # 002503

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Play with a Tiger (Playscripts)
• Publisher: Davis-Poynter, London
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0706700163
• ISBN 13: 9780706700169
• Binding: Soft cover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Written from 1950s to the 1970s, the three plays collected here reflect the social and political concerns of the times, and are rich with Doris Lessing’s characteristic passion and incisiveness.

‘Play With a Tiger’ follows the fortunes of Anna and Dave, representatives of the emerging post-war classless society, and their attempts to find a blueprint for living. ‘The Singing Door’, written for children, is a highly experimental play, a clever and witty allegorical study of power games. ‘Each His Own Wilderness’ tells the story of Myra, who has fought all her life for the socialist ideal, and who must now come to terms with the fact that despite her best efforts, her son is indifferent to her politics.

About the Author

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Her most recent novel is 'Alfred and Emily'.