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The Grass Is Singing Doris Lessing The Grass Is Singing  Brief introduction Literature review Critical practice Doris Lessing (1919--) : a prolific writer A British novelist A poet A playwright（who writes plays） A librettist（who writes opera or musical plays） A biographer A short story writer Works: novels (17) The Grass is Singing (1950) The Golden Notebook (1962) Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) The Summer Before the Dark (1973) Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) The Diary of a Good Neighbor (as Jane Somers, 1983) If the Old Could... (as Jane Somers, 1984) The Good Terrorist (1985) The Fifth Child (1988) Playing the Game (graphic novel, illustrated by Charlie Adlard, 1995) Love, Again (1996) Mara and Dann (1999) Ben, in the World (2000) – sequel to The Fifth Child The Sweetest Dream (2001) The Story of General Dann and Maras Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog (2005) – sequel to Mara and Dann The Cleft (2007) Alfred and Emily (2008) Stories collection Five Short Novels (1953) The Habit of Loving (1957) A Man and Two Women (1963) African Stories (1964) Winter in July (1966) The Black Madonna (1966) The Story of a Non-Marrying Man (1972) This Was the Old Chiefs Country: Collected African Stories, Vol. 1 (1973) The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories, Vol. 2 (1973) To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories, Vol. 1 (1978) The Temptation of Jack Orkney: Collected Stories, Vol. 2 (1978) Through the Tunnel (1990) London Observed: Stories and Sketches (1992) The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches (1992) Spies I Have Known (1995) The Pit (1996) The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels (2003) The Children of Violence series Martha Quest (1952) A Proper Marriage (1954) A Ripple from the Storm (1958) Landlocked (1965) The Four-Gated City (1969) The Canopus in Argos: Archives series Shikasta (1979) The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) The Sirian Experiments (1980) The Making of th