Landlocked (novel)

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Landlocked
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First edition
Author Doris Lessing
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre Novel
Published 1965
Publisher MacGibbon & Kee
Media typePrint

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]

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References

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