- Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
- Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
- Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).
SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>
Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Doris Lessing.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | doris lessing Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text", and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals."
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Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Arts & Sciences Collections I & II | doris lessing JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a number of revelant documents. |
| Contemporary
Authors |
doris lessing Perform the default search. |
Provides a profile of the author's life and works. Includes an extensive bibliography. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | doris lessing Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles, and a number of Web sites. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | doris lessing Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text." |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Literature Resource Center | doris lessing Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, web links, and journal articles. |
Provides a number of quality documents. |
| MagillOnLiterature | doris lessing Perform the default search. |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Research Library Complete | doris lessing Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals." |
Provides a number of quality items. |
| Scribner's | Select “Writers
A-Z” and click on the LESSING, DORIS:
African Writers, LESSING, DORIS: British
Writers Supp. 1. |
Provides an essays about the author and her works, along with a bibliography. |
| SIRS Renaissance | doris lessing Perform the "Quick Search".
|
Provides a small number of quality items. |
| Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Lessing, Doris link. |
Provides a small number of quality items. |
SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>
- The following bibliography
is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
- Circulating books
not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary
loan.
- eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
To find works written by Doris Lessing, do a catalog search for doris lessing and select the Author option. To find works written about the author, select the Search everything option. The following are selected titles from among the Troy libraries’ holdings. Search the library catalog for more results.
Between East and West : Sufism in the novels of Doris Lessing
Location: eBook
Engendering the subject : gender and self-representation in contemporary
women's fiction
Location: eBook
A small personal voice
PR6023.E833 Z52 1974
Location: Troy, AL
The novels of Doris Lessing
PR6023.E833 Z88
Location: Troy, AL
Doris Lessing
PR6023.E833 Z58 1965
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
A proper marriage : a complete novel
PR6023.E833 P7 1970
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City
Landlocked
PR6023.E833 L3
Location: Troy, AL
Martha Quest
PR6023.E833 M3
Location: Troy, AL
A ripple from the storm : a complete novel from Doris Lessing's masterwork
Children of violence
PR6023.E833 R56X 1970
Location: Troy, AL
Doris Lessing : critical studies
PR6023.E833 Z6 1974
Location: Troy, AL
The city and the veld : the fiction of Doris Lessing
PR6023 .E833 Z89 1977
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City
The novelistic vision of Doris Lessing : breaking the forms of consciousness
PR6023.E833 Z87
Location: Troy, AL
Shikasta : re, colonised planet 5 : personal, psychological, historical
documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) emissary (grade
9) 87th of the period of the last days
PR 6023 E833 S54 1979
Location: Troy, AL
The making of the representative for Planet 8
PR6023.E833 M34 1982
Location: Troy, AL
Notebooks, memoirs, archives : reading and rereading Doris Lessing
PR6023.E833 Z78 1982
Location: Troy, AL
Doris Lessing
PR6023.E833 Z878 1983
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City
Substance under pressure : artistic coherence and evolving form in
the novels of Doris Lessing
PR6023.E833 Z63 1983
Location: Troy, AL
Documents relating to the sentimental agents in the Volyen Empire
PR6023.E833 D59 1983
Location: Troy, AL
Doris Lessing
PR6023.E833 Z735 1984
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
Critical essays on Doris Lessing
PR6023.E833 Z896 1986
Location: Troy, AL
Doris Lessing : the alchemy of survival
PR6023.E833 Z62 1988
Location: Troy, AL
The Doris Lessing reader
PR6023.E833 A6 1988
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
Understanding Doris Lessing
PR6023 .E833 Z8 1990
Location: Phenix City
Under my skin
PR6023.E833 Z477 1994
Location: Troy, AL
Doris Lessing : a biography
PR6023 .E833 Z733 2000B
Location: Troy, AL
Children of violence
PZ3 .L56684 CH 1964
Location: Phenix City
African stories
PZ3 .L56684 AF2 1965
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City
The four-gated city
PR6023.E833 F6 1969
Location: Dothan
Briefing for a descent into Hell
PR6023.E833 B7
Location: Troy, AL
The summer before the dark
PZ3 .L56684 SU3
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City; Dothan
The memoirs of a survivor
PZ3 .L56684 ME3
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City
Stories
PR6023.E833 S77
Location: Troy, AL
The good terrorist
PR6023.E833 G66 1985
Location: Troy, AL
The fifth child
PR6023.E833 F54 1988
Location: Troy, AL
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
- Doris Lessing:
a Retrospective
http://lessing.redmood.com - Doris May Lessing
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~ajsimoes/aflit/LessingEN.html - Joyce Carol Oates on Doris Lessing
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/lessing.html - Featured author : Doris Lessing with news and reviews from the archives
of the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing.html - BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Doris Lessing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/lessingd1.shtml - The Doris Lessing Society
http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/raschke/doris_lessing_society - Transcript: Bill Moyers interviews Doris Lessing
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_lessing.html - Life is stronger than fiction -- at 76, Doris Lessing wants to be
alone
http://mural.uv.es/vemivein/0411two.htm - A Notorious Life: the Salon Interview
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1997/11/cov_si_11lessing.html - Similarities Between Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing
http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol3no2/scott.html
