The bell / compiled by Julia Swannell
| dc.contributor | Gilliver, Peter OUP Oxford Dictionaries |
| dc.contributor.author | Murdoch, Iris |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:19:21Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:19:21Z |
| dc.date.created | 1958 |
| dc.date.issued | 1976-01-01 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0509 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0509 |
| dc.description.abstract | [198-?] In English Title from title page of source text |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Although this resource has been deposited with us, it is not currently available for re-use by others. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Great Britain -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | The bell / compiled by Julia Swannell |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.size | 637477 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<D 1958>[Chatto & Windus] <A I. MURDOCH> <T Bell> <C i> <P 7> Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him. She decided six months later to return to him for the same reason. The absent Paul, haunting her with letters and telephone bells and imagined footsteps on the stairs had begun to be the greater torment. Dora suffered from guilt, and with guilt came fear. She decided at last that the persecution of his presence was to be preferred to the persecution of his absence. Dora was still very young, though she vaguely thought of herself as past her prime. She came of a lower middle-class London family. Her father had died when she was nine years old, and her mother, with whom she had never got on very well, had married again. When Dora was eighteen she entered the Slade school of art with a scholarship, and had been there two years when she encountered Paul. The role of an art student suited Dora. It was indeed the only role she had ever been able whole-heartedly to pla . . .
