Proof copy of a feminist landmark
LESSING, Doris. The Golden Notebook. London: Michael Joseph. 1962.
8vo. Original print wrappers, publishers proof copy label printed in red to front cover; pp. 568; a few marks to wrappers, small hole to lower wrapper, spine creased, hinges repaired, else very good.
Proof copy of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, a profound exploration of mental and societal breakdown.
The Golden Notebook contains powerful anti-war and anti-Stalinist messages, an extended analysis of communism, and a famed examination of the budding sexual and women's liberation movements. As Anthony Burgess writes in Ninety-nine Novels, "The Golden Notebook has, with all its faults, significance as the most massive statement made, up to that time, on the position of woman in the modern world".
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