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A Summer Bird-Cage

A Summer Bird-Cage

A Summer Bird-Cage is the 1963 debut novel by Margaret Drabble published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The title of the novel is taken from a quotation from the play The White Devil by John Webster:


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“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”

A Summer Bird-Cage (1963; New York: William Morrow, 1964) p. 120

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“How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.”

A Summer Bird-Cage (1963; New York: Popular Library, 1977) p. 28 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q43gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22How+unjust+life+is+to+make+physical+charm+so+immediately+apparent+or+absent+when+one+can+get+away+with+vices+untold+for+ever%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage

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“Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.”

A Summer Bird-Cage (1963; New York: William Morrow, 1964) p. 49

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