Landlocked (novel)

Landlocked (1965) is the fourth novel in British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, Children of Violence. The first volume is Martha Quest (1952), and the others are, A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), and The Four-Gated City (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest "from girlhood to middle age".[1]

Landlocked
First edition
AuthorDoris Lessing
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesChildren of Violence
GenreNovel
Published1965
PublisherMacGibbon & Kee
Media typePrint
Preceded byA Ripple from the Storm 
Followed byThe Four-Gated City 

This is the last of the series that is set in southern Africa: "The time is the last few months of a war that had not only ruined Europe but had flooded a message of equality even into this backwater. Some of the white people have already sensed the imminence of change: they could never again unthinkingly hold down this corner of Africa for themselves and their heirs".[2]

References
  1. Encyclopædia Britannica online
  2. Dust jacket of the first edition, DorisLessing.org


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