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1962. London: Michael Joseph. 1962. 8vo. Original print wrappers, publishers proof copy label printed in red to front cover; pp. 568; a few marks to wrappers, small hole to lower wrapper, spine creased, hinges repaired, else very good. Proof copy of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, a profound exploration of mental and societal breakdown. The Golden Notebook contains powerful anti-war and anti-Stalinist messages, an extended analysis of communism, and a famed examination of the budding sexual and women's liberation movements. As Anthony Burgess writes in Ninety-nine Novels, "The Golden Notebook has, with all its faults, significance as the most massive statement made, up to that time, on the position of woman in the modern world".

Published in 1962, 'The Golden Notebook' is considered to be Doris Lessing's masterpiece, exploring themes of mental and societal breakdown.