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Doris Lessing

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"Through the Tunnel" was first published in the New Yorker on August 6, 1955, and two years later it was reprinted in Doris Lessing's collection of short stories, The Habit of Loving. The story's eleven-year-old protagonist, Jerry, is caught in the difficult position of being neither a child nor an adult. On a winter holiday with his mother in a foreign country, he encounters some older boys swimming. When they disappear by swimming through a...

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Doris Lessing Biographies (5)

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing (born 1919) was a South African expatriate writer known for her strong sense of feminism. A short story writer and novelist, as well as essayist and critic, Lessing was deeply concerned ... Read more

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing, whose long career as a novelist, short story writer, and essayist began in the mid-twentieth century, is considered among the most important writers of the modern postwar era. Since her... Read more

Doris Lessing

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Biography EssayDoris Lessing burst upon the British literary scene in 1950 with her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, and she has remained at the top ever since. In the past four decades, her work ... Read more

Doris (May) Lessing

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[This entry was updated by Paul Schlueter from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 228-254.]Doris Lessing burst upon the British literary scene in 1950 wit... Read more

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Doris Lessing's literary career spans more than four decades; consequently her texts, both fiction and nonfiction, are valuable at the most basic level as historical records that tackle the central po... Read more

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Through the Tunnel

891 words, approx. 3 pages

Doris Lessing's short story, "Through the Tunnel," is about a dependant `mummy's boy' named Jerry who struggles through a tough journey to achieve independence. As the story continues he encounters a ... Read more

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