Landlocked (novel)

1965 novel by Doris Lessing

Landlocked

First edition

Author| Doris Lessing
Language| English
Series| Children of Violence
Genre| Novel
Published| 1965
Publisher| MacGibbon & Kee
Publication place| United Kingdom
Media type| Print
Pages| 352
ISBN| 0061991821
Preceded by| A Ripple from the Storm
Followed by| The Four-Gated City

Landlocked (1965) is the fourth novel in British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, Children of Violence. The first volume is Martha Quest (1952), and the others are, A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), and The Four-Gated City (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest "from girlhood to middle age".[1]

This is the last of the series that is set in southern Africa: "The time is the last few months of a war that had not only ruined Europe but had flooded a message of equality even into this backwater. Some of the white people have already sensed the imminence of change: they could never again unthinkingly hold down this corner of Africa for themselves and their heirs".[2]

## References

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1. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica online
2. ^ Dust jacket of the first edition, DorisLessing.org

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Works by Doris Lessing

Fiction|

* The Grass Is Singing
* The Golden Notebook
* Briefing for a Descent into Hell
* The Memoirs of a Survivor
* The Good Terrorist
* The Fifth Child
* Ben, in the World
* The Sweetest Dream
* The Cleft

Children of Violence series|

* Martha Quest
* A Proper Marriage
* A Ripple from the Storm
* Landlocked
* The Four-Gated City

Canopus in Argos series|

* Shikasta
* The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
* The Sirian Experiments
* The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
* The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

Short stories|

* "Through the Tunnel"
* "Flight"

Collections|

* Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
* The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels

Autobiography/
memoirs|

* Under My Skin
* Alfred and Emily

Related|

* The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

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