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Synopsis Acclaimed by The London Times and New York Book Review as the foremost creative descendent in the great tradition of D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot Doris Lessing is unique among women writers. A writer of epic scope and starting surprises, her writings extend the boundaries of diction experiment with different genres and in the process explore the world of Africa, Briton and Space. In her more than thirty-five book she ranges from social realism to science fiction with brief forays into speculative mysticism. It is hard to think of any writer in the past half a century who has displayed such range. She has involved herself in a world of vital issues ranging from colonial oppression in South Africa, to the recurrent threat of nuclear holocaust, Women's Movement, radical politics, Apartheid, dream, madness, prophecy, the complex relation between man and woman and philosophies ranging from Marxism to Sufism. Unchanged for several decades they attack compartmentalized thinking and strive towards a vision of one. In doing so her work has embraced all tensions and disorientations that has marked the post war world, which has made her writing nationally and internationally relevant. The book is a small effort in the study of an extraordinary writer Doris Lessing, who has always noticed and told truths "Silenced in the legitimate daughters of the British literary tradition".