The Golden Notebook
Lessing, Doris
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Add to basketSold by Vector Archive, Webster Groves, MO, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since March 3, 2026
Condition: Used - Good
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Add to basketThe Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing (1919-2013), British novelist, Nobel Laureate 2007
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1962
Jacket design by Janet Halverson
The true first edition, first printing of Doris Lessing's masterwork, the novel the Swedish Academy cited when awarding her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, describing her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny." The Golden Notebook broke open postwar fiction's formal conventions and gave second-wave feminism one of its defining texts. Anna Wulf, a blocked novelist, keeps four separate notebooks, black for her African years, red for her politics, yellow for her fiction, blue for her diary, before a fifth, the golden notebook, pulls the fragments together.
First edition, first printing stated on copyright page. Original dust jacket with "First Reviews from England" rear panel.
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