"So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they … - Doris Lessing

"So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise they would be saying, "Just like us, isn't it?"

Doris Lessing

The Summer Before the Dark · June 17, 2002 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Doris Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British writer, born Doris May Tayler. In October 2007, Lessing became the eleventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in its 106-year history, and its oldest ever recipient.

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Pen Names: Jane Somers

Birth Name: Doris May Tayler

Native Name: Doris May Lessing

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