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- ↑ From the dust jacket of the first edition of The Four-Gated City.
- ↑ "Doris Lessing - Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
- 1 2 Lessing, Doris (1972). The four gated city. London: Panther Granada. p. 671. ISBN 0-586-03620-2. OCLC 12317219.
- ↑ DorisLessing.org
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