The Doris Lessing reader. [electronic resource]

STORIES: The old chief Mshlanga -- A sunrise on the veld -- The habit of loving -- The eye of God in paradise -- How I finally lost my heart -- England versus England -- Outside the ministry -- One off the short list -- Homage for Isaac Babel -- Between men -- To room 19 -- The words he said -- A letter from home -- The temptation of Jack Orkney -- FROM THE NOVELS: The grass is singing -- Martha Quest -- A proper marriage -- A ripple from the the storm -- The golden notebook [two excerpts] -- The four-gated city -- Briefing for a descent from hell -- The summer before the dark -- The memoirs of a survivor -- Shikasta [two excerpts] -- The marriages between zones three, four, and five -- The making of the representative for Planet 8 [two excerpts] -- The diaries of Jane Somers -- NON-FICTION: Going home -- My father -- Afterword to: The story of an African farm -- Preface to the French edition of: Seekers after truth.