The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing is the first novel, published in 1950, by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Rhodesia , in southern Africa, during the 1940s and deals with the racial politics between whites and blacks in that country . The novel created a sensation when it was first published and became an instant success in Europe and the United States. The novel starts with a cutting from newspaper article about the death of Mary Turner. It says that Mary Turner, a white woman is killed by her black servant Moses for money. The author of the article is unknown. The...
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Author:Doris Lessing
Genre:Novel, Fiction
Year published:1950
Number of editions:14

Author of The Grass Is Singing

Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
Age:92
Birthplace:Kermanshah

Doris May Lessing CH is a Zimbabwean-British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize...
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Additional works by Doris Lessing
BookCopyright DateGenre
The Fifth Child 1988 Novel
The Golden Notebook 1962 Novel
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Science Fiction
Shikasta Science Fiction
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five March 12, 1980 Science Fiction
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1982 Science Fiction
Memoirs of a Survivor 1974 Fiction
The Sirian Experiments December 12, 1980 Science Fiction
The Four-Gated City 1969 Novel
The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels September 30, 2004 Novel
The Good Terrorist September 30, 1985 Fiction
Cascades - "Spies I Have Known" January 22, 1995 Speculative fiction
Time Bites November 29, 2005 Speculative fiction
Doris Lessing March 30, 1981
Collected Stories December 13, 1979 Speculative fiction
The Summer Before the Dark 1973 Speculative fiction
Landlocked 1965 Fiction
Ecclesiastes
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 October 1, 1998
Le carnet d'or
London Observed March 31, 1993 Speculative fiction
A Proper Marriage 1954 Speculative fiction
A Ripple from the Storm 1958 Speculative fiction
Briefing for a Descent into Hell 1971 Fiction
The Pocket Canons Bible
Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child 2000 Fiction
Mara and Dann: An Adventure 1999 Speculative fiction
On Cats November 30, 2002 Non-fiction
The Diaries of Jane Somers October 12, 1984
A Small Personal Voice August 12, 1974
Under My Skin September 1, 1994 Autobiography
The Sweetest Dream June 30, 2002 Fiction
Le cinquième enfant
Grass is Singing The
Martha Quest 1952 Fiction
The Story of a Non-marrying Man and Other Stories
First Among Sufis: The Life and Thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya, the Woman Saint of Basra December 1, 1982
Love, Again 1996 Speculative fiction
African Laughter : Four Visits to Zimbabwe August 4, 1993
To Room Nineteen 1994 Speculative fiction
The Wind Blows Away Our Words and Other Documents Relating to the Afghan Resistance November 12, 1987
Retreat to Innocence 1956 Speculative fiction
In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary 1960
Nouvelles africaines November 1, 1990 Speculative fiction
This Was the Old Chief’s Country 1951 Speculative fiction
Notre amie Judith October 1, 1995 Speculative fiction
Diario de Una Buena Vecina January 1, 1995 Speculative fiction
El Dia Que Murio Stalin March 1, 2001 Speculative fiction
L'habitude d'aimer June 1, 1994 Speculative fiction
Debaixo da Minha Pele 1997 Speculative fiction
Dentro de Mi September 1, 1998 Speculative fiction
Winter in July 1966 Speculative fiction
Children of Violence 1964 Speculative fiction
Alfred and Emily Fiction
The Cleft 2007 Speculative fiction
Under My Skin: Volume I of my Autobiography, to 1949 Autobiography
Nebenerträge eines ehrbaren Berufs
African Stories
Die Ehen zwischen den Zonen Drei, Vier und Fünf
Cuentos africanos, 1
Der Zauber ist nicht verkäuflich. Afrikanische Erzählungen
Nine African stories
Hunger nach dem großen Leben. Erzählung
Laocoon and Other Writings
Diana-Taschenbücher, Nr.65, Doris Lessings Katzenbuch
Five
Rückkehr nach Afrika
Herbstreise
The Pit
The Habit of Loving
Wie ich endlich mein Herz verlor. Erzählungen
L'été avant la nuit
El sueno mas dulce (Zeta Narrativa)
Eldorado
Gespräche
The Black Madonna
A Man and Two Women
Det Femme Barnet
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside November 14, 1987
Stories
The Sweetest Dream Novel
Alfred and Emily
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Literary Genres

Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Frequently Asked Questions

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    The book, "The Grass Is Singing" is of which category?
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    "The Grass Is Singing" is of the subject matter category: Zimbabwe
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    What year was the title "The Grass Is Singing" first released?
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    The book was released in 1950.
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    How many pages is the book: "The Grass Is Singing"?
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    The work consists of 218 pages.
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    The book is classified as: Novel.

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