This Was the Old Chief's Country (89 page)
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Authors: Doris Lessing
Fed, he again backed himself against the wall, squatted on the bed, and looked at the door where his jailers would enter: he had not really understood he was at home.
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First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd 1951
âEvents in the Skies' first published in 1987 in
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Copyright © Doris Lessing 1951, 1953, 1973, 1987
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