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A Home for the Highland Cattle & The Antheap (Broadview Literary Texts)
A Home for the Highland Cattle The Antheap - Broadview Literary Texts Author:Doris Lessing This Broadview edition pairs two Doris Lessing novellas originally published in Five (1953), for which Lessing won the Somerset Maugham Award of the Society of Authors. Written during her first years in London, these two superb works (set in 1940s Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) elaborate upon the picture of settler society drawn in Lessing's earlier no... more »vel, The Grass is Singing. The edition includes an introduction that emphasizes the relations between writer, reader, and history, as well as a selection of documents illustrating the biographical, literary, and historical contexts from which these novels emerged. The contextual material includes autobiographical commentary by Lessing, contemporary reviews, and excerpts from interviews and from work by contemporary African writers.« less