Novels
- The Lusty Land (originally published as Hired Girl) 1953, Universal
- Whisper Their Love 1957, Gold Medal
- The Girls in 3-B 1959, Gold Medal
- Stranger on Lesbos 1960, Gold Medal
- A World Without Men 1963, Midwood Tower
- Unlike Others 1963, Midwood Tower
- Return to Lesbos 1963
- Journey to Fulfillment 1964, Midwood Tower
- The Secret of the Bayou 1967, Ace (as Francine Davenport)
- Love Image 1977, Naiad
- Prism 1981, Naiad
- Ripening 1988, Banned Books
- Rice and Beans 1989
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Famous quotes containing the word novels:
“An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.”
—George Bluestone, U.S. educator, critic. “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film,” Novels Into Film, Johns Hopkins Press (1957)
“The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know—Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel—the quality of philosophy.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The novels are as useful as Bibles, if they teach you the secret, that the best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)