The summer before the dark
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Lessing, Doris May, 1919- |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:47Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:47Z |
| dc.date.created | 1973 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1610 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1610 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1610 |
| dc.description.abstract | SGML encoded version of text 0088 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 445 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | OTA Licence. This item may not be redistributed. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- Great Britain -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Great Britain -- 20th century |
| dc.title | The summer before the dark |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 460677 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<Author>Lessing, Doris</Author>
<Title>The Summer Before the Dark</Title>
<Edition>New York: Vintage Books, 1973</Edition>
<note>Pagination stops at p. 138</note>
<Date>1970-1973</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>LesSuBD1</locdoc><milestone n=1>
<div0 type=chapter n=1><div0.title>At Home</div0.title>
A woman stood on her back step, arms folded, waiting.
<p>Thinking? She would not have said so. She was
trying to catch hold of something, or to lay it bare so
that she could look and define; for some time now she
had been " trying on " ideas like so many dresses off a
rack. She was letting words and phrases as worn as
nursery rhymes slide around her tongue: for towards
the crucial experiences custom allots certain attitudes,
and they are pretty stereotyped. <i>Ah yes, first love!</i>.
<i>Growing up is bound to be painful!. My first child</i>,
<i>you know. But I was in love!. Marriage is a</i>
<i>compromise. I am not as young as I once was</i>. Of
course, . . .
