Title: The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five
Title Record # 16847
Author: Doris Lessing
Date: 1980-03-12
Type: NOVEL
Series: Canopus in Argos: Archives
Series Number: 2
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: science fiction (1), gender conflict (1), into-opera (1) Add Tags
Author: Doris Lessing
Date: 1980-03-12
Type: NOVEL
Series: Canopus in Argos: Archives
Series Number: 2
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: WorldCat: This is the story of the kindly Queen of Zone Three, who rules a land free of all harshness, and her forced marriage with the soldier-king of Zone Four, which is hierarchic, disciplined, inflexible, dutiful. This apparently difficult marriage, unwanted by both, requires a compromise between impulse and reason, between instinct and logic. Ben Ata learns to accept and then to love the ruler of Zone Three and her alien ways; and she learns to love and to need him. But when the Queen is commanded by the Providers to return to her own realm, she must obey, shattering though it is to leave her husband and child. Ben Ata, in turn, is ordered to marry the savage beauty who rules Zone Five, a land that both unites and reverses the other two Zones. In 'The Marriages' Doris Lessing uses science-fiction brilliantly to investigate the conflict between men and women. Once again, invented planets allow her to deploy her unillusioned knowledge of the real world of the reader
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (As Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) | 1980-00-00 | Doris Lessing | Jonathan Cape | 0-224-01790-X | £5.95?£: UK pound |
245 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | David Prout | |
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (As Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) | 1980-04-04 | Doris Lessing | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-394-50914-5 | $10.00?$: US dollar |
245 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Paul Gamarello | |
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (As Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) | 1981-00-00 | Doris Lessing | Panther / Granada | 0-586-05338-7 | £1.95?£: UK pound |
299 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five | 1981-08-00 | Doris Lessing | Vintage Books | 0-394-74978-2 | $4.95?$: US dollar |
245 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five | 1985-00-00 | Doris Lessing | Panther | 0-586-05338-7 | £2.50?£: UK pound |
299+ [5] |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five | 1988-00-00 | Doris Lessing | Grafton | 0-586-05338-7 | £2.95?£: UK pound |
299 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Canopus in Argos: Archives | 1992-12-29 | Doris Lessing | Vintage Books (Vintage International) | 0-679-74184-4 | $25.00?$: US dollar |
xii+ 1228 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
omni | ||
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five | 1994-05-00 | Doris Lessing | Flamingo | 0-00-654720-6 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
299 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Catherine Denvir , George Snow |
Reviews
- Review by Susan Wood (1980) in Starship, Summer 1980
- Review by Colin Greenland (1980) in Foundation, #20 October 1980
- Review [Dutch] by Silvia Zaugg (1980) in Literair paspoort november/december 1980
- Review by Ursula K. Le Guin (1980) in Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, (1989) , reprinted in:
- Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (1989)
- Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (unknown)
- Review [German] by Barbara Holland-Cunz (1984) in Science Fiction Times, September 1984
- Review by Graham Sleight (2011) in Locus, #601 February 2011