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This Was the Old Chief's Country
Doris Lessing S Collected African Stories Book 1
Book 1 of the Doris Lessing S Collected African Stories series.Lessing's early African stories, collected here, depict white farmers, African chiefs, servants, and drifters in Southern Rhodesia. Through children, lonely wives, and stubborn old men she shows a land of fierce beauty and a society fraying under the pressures of race and power.
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Lessing's early African stories, collected here, depict white farmers, African chiefs, servants, and drifters in Southern Rhodesia. Through children, lonely wives, and stubborn old men she shows a land of fierce beauty and a society fraying under the pressures of race and power.
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A good next step after This Was the Old Chief's Country is The Sun Between Their Feet, The Day Stalin Died, The Wind Blows Away Our Words.
When was This Was the Old Chief's Country published?
This Was the Old Chief's Country was published in 1952.