{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2858","title":"Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2858","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2858\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSeventeen novels and story collections from Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, spanning her African realist fiction, the Children of Violence sequence, the Canopus in Argos science fiction cycle, and her later work. A rare chance to build a comprehensive Lessing library in a single purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\" class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Man and Two Women — Doris Lessing (Panther) — Lessing's third short story collection, ranging across London and Africa with her characteristic unflinching intelligence about the relations between men and women.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Habit of Loving — Doris Lessing (Penguin) — Short stories exploring attachment, loneliness, and the strange durability of human need — Lessing in her most psychologically precise mode.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eBriefing for a Descent into Hell — Doris Lessing (Panther) — A professor found wandering in London with no memory of who he is — Lessing's most formally daring novel, and a profound exploration of consciousness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five — Doris Lessing (Canopus in Argos: Archives) — The second Canopus novel: a fable of masculine and feminine principles told as myth — more lyrical than the rest of the sequence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Making of the Representative for Planet Eight — Doris Lessing (Canopus in Argos: Archives) — A planet faces extinction and its people must transform — Lessing's most direct engagement with collective suffering and spiritual evolution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Golden Notebook — Doris Lessing — The novel that secured Lessing's reputation as one of the great writers of the twentieth century — four notebooks, one woman, and a formal and political ambition that still feels radical.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Four-Gated City — Doris Lessing (Panther) — The fifth and final Children of Violence novel, moving from Martha Quest's African origins to a visionary near-future London — vast, strange, and unforgettable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCollected African Stories: Volume Two — The Sun Between Their Feet — Doris Lessing (Panther) — The second volume of her African stories, gathering tales of the Rhodesian veld, farm life, and the social structures of colonial society.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Sirian Experiments — Doris Lessing (Canopus in Argos: Archives) — The third Canopus novel, narrated by a female Sirian administrator who gradually comes to question the empire she serves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Summer Before the Dark — Doris Lessing (Penguin) — Kate Brown, middle-aged and invisible, walks out of her life for a summer — one of Lessing's most accessible and emotionally direct novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Proper Marriage — Doris Lessing (Panther) — The second Children of Violence novel, following Martha Quest into marriage, motherhood, and the political upheaval of wartime Rhodesia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLandlocked — Doris Lessing (Panther) — The fourth Children of Violence novel, in which Martha Quest prepares to leave Africa — an elegiac novel of departure and unresolved longing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Diaries of Jane Somers — Doris Lessing — Originally published under a pseudonym to test whether her work would be rejected without her name — a novel about ageing, female friendship, and what we owe the old.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMartha Quest — Doris Lessing (Panther) — The first Children of Violence novel, introducing the restless, brilliant Martha Quest in colonial Rhodesia — the beginning of one of the great fictional bildungsromans.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Ripple from the Storm — Doris Lessing (Panther) — The third Children of Violence novel, in which Martha Quest immerses herself in wartime Communist politics and finds idealism slowly curdling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eGoing Home — Doris Lessing (Panther) — Lessing's account of returning to Southern Rhodesia in 1956 — part travel memoir, part political document, and essential context for the African fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Grandmothers — Doris Lessing — Four novellas from late in Lessing's career, each exploring a different facet of love and its complications — quiet, precise, and rich.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49028032626907,"sku":"SP2858","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2858.jpg?v=1785106928","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-literary-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2858","provider":"Book 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