Summer before the dark / Doris Lessing
| dc.contributor | Smith, John Bristow, 1940- Department of Computer Science Chapel Hill College Chapel Hill |
| dc.contributor.author | Lessing, Doris May, 1919- |
| dc.coverage.placeName | s.l. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T15:54:37Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T15:54:37Z |
| dc.date.created | 1973 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0088 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0088 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 447 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Use of this resource is restricted in some manner. Usually this means that it is available for non-commercial use only with prior permission of the depositor and on condition that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English fiction -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | Summer before the dark / Doris Lessing |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 456725 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<A D. Lessing> <T Summer before Dark> <C 1> <P 1> A woman stood on her back step , arms folded , waiting .. 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 . Ah# yes# ,# first# love# ]# ... Growing# up# is# bound# to# be# painful# ]# ... My# first# child# , you# know# ... But# I# was# in# love# ]# ... Marriage# is# a# compromise# ... . I# am# not# as# young# as# I# once# was# . Of course , the choice of one rather than another of these time-honoured phrases has seldom to do with a personal feeling , but more likely your social setting , or the people you are with on an occasion . You have to deduce a person's real feelings . . .
