Landlocked (novel)

{{short description|1965 novel by Doris Lessing}}

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{{Infobox book

| name = Landlocked

| author = Doris Lessing

| image = File:LandlockedLessingNovel.jpg

| caption = First edition

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| genre = Novel

| publisher = MacGibbon & Kee

| published = 1965

| media_type = Print

| pages = 352

| isbn = 0061991821

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| congress =

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| preceded_by = A Ripple from the Storm

| followed_by = The Four-Gated City

| series = Children of Violence

}}

Landlocked (1965) is the fourth novel in British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, Children of Violence. The first volume is Martha Quest (1952), and the others are, A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), and The Four-Gated City (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest "from girlhood to middle age".[http://www.britannica.com/topic/Martha-Quest Encyclopædia Britannica online]

This is the last of the series that is set in southern Africa: "The time is the last few months of a war that had not only ruined Europe but had flooded a message of equality even into this backwater. Some of the white people have already sensed the imminence of change: they could never again unthinkingly hold down this corner of Africa for themselves and their heirs".[http://www.dorislessing.org/landlocked.html Dust jacket of the first edition, DorisLessing.org]