Best known for her 1962 novel The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing's life work spans more than a half century. She was born in Persia to British parents in 1919. Her family then moved to Southern Africa, where she spent her childhood on her father's farm in what was then Southern Rhodesia. When her second marriage ended in 1949, she moved to London, where her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. The book explores the complacency and shallowness of white colonial society in Southern Africa and established Lessing as a talented young novelist. At the age of 15, Lessing began to sell her stories to magazines. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950. The work that gained her international attention, The Golden Notebook, was published in 1962. By the time of her death, she had issued more than 50 novels, some under a pseudonym. Canopus in Argos: Archives is a sequence of five science fiction novels which portray a number of societies at different stages of development, over a great period of time. Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta, often shortened to Shikasta, is a 1979 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. Galactic empires have struggled against one another, and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds. Canopus colonises a young and promising planet they name Rohanda. They nurture its bourgeoning humanoids and accelerate their evolution. Enjoy free online English audiobook “Shikasta”, a novel by Doris Lessing.
