A Home for the Highland Cattle and the Antheap

Download or read book A Home for the Highland Cattle and the Antheap written by Doris Lessing and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-08-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doris Lessing's two short novels A Home for the Highland Cattle, a wry portrait of African settler society, and The Antheap, set in the gold fields of the former Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), were originally published in Five (1953), a collection of Lessing's shorter fictional works. This Broadview edition includes both novels, as well as a critical introduction and a rich selection of primary source material, such as excerpts from interviews with Doris Lessing, short fiction by contemporary African women writers, reviews, and historical documents focussing on race and socio-economic conditions in the former Southern Rhodesia.