The Grass is Singing Year First Published: 1950 First Published by: Michael Joseph Category: Novel This Edition: British first edition First published March 1950 7th impression August 1950 click on image for larger version

From the book jacket: Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in Persia, where her father was a bank official. When she was five years old she went with her family to Southern Rhodesia and spent her childhood on a farm in Mashonaland. She was educated chiefly at the Dominican Convent in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, and since she left school has earned her living in various ways - as a telephone operator, Hansard typist, and shorthand typist. Doris Lessing now lives in England and intends to stay here 'for a while, at any rate.' The Grass is Singing is her first novel, and she is now busy writing another. Also see: American Edition The Film: Killing Heat O T H E R . E D I T I O N S The Netherlands Published by G. W. Breughel/Amsterdam Mertens & Stappaerts/Antwerpen First Edition Published 1953 Penguin British paperback reprint Published 1961, reprinted 1969 ISBN: 0435901311 Heinemann Educational British paperback reprint Published April 1973 ISBN: 0435901311 Paladin/Grafton British paperback reprint Published September 1989 ISBN: 0586089241 Adaptation for Penquin Readers Level 5 Penquin British softcover Published 1992 Retold by Andy Hopkins and Joc Potter Illustrations by David Cuzik ISBN: 0-14-081503-1 Flamingo (HarperCollins) British softcover reprint Published 1994 ISBN: 0-586-08924-1 Flamingo (HarperCollins) 50th Anniversary Edition British hardcover reissue Published: March 6, 2000 ISBN: 0002257556 Flamingo (HarperCollins) Flamingo Modern Classic 50th Anniversary Edition British softcover reissue Published: April 5, 2002 ISBN: 0-586-08924-1