The Golden Notebook
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| Author | Doris Lessing |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
| Publication date | 1962 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-7181-0970-8 |
| OCLC | 595787 |
| Dewey Decimal | 823/.9/14 |
| LC Class | PZ3.L56684 Go5 PR6023.E833 |
The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by the British writer Doris Lessing. Like her two books that followed, it enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in The Oxford Companion to English Literature called Lessing's "inner space fiction"; her work that explores mental and societal breakdown. The novel contains anti-war and anti-Stalinist messages, an extended analysis of communism and the Communist Party in England from the 1930s to the 1950s, and an examination of the budding sexual revolution and women's liberation movements.
The book numbered among a 2005 TIME magazine list of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923. Translated editions include French, Polish, Italian, Swedish, Hungarian, and Hebrew.