Flight (Lessing story)

"Flight" is a 1957 short story by Doris Lessing.^[1] It deals with an unnamed old man who is against his eighteen-year-old granddaughter getting married, bringing him into conflict with not only her and her fiancé, but also his daughter, who was herself married even younger and whose other three daughters have already been married.

References

^ Moore, Andrew (2002). "Doris Lessing: Flight - study guide".

[1] Moore, Andrew (2002). "Doris Lessing: Flight - study guide".

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v t e Works by Doris Lessing
Novels	The Grass Is Singing Martha Quest A Proper Marriage The Golden Notebook Briefing for a Descent into Hell A Ripple from the Storm Landlocked The Four-Gated City The Memoirs of a Survivor Shikasta The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five The Sirian Experiments The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire The Good Terrorist The Fifth Child Ben, in the World The Sweetest Dream The Cleft
Short stories	"Through the Tunnel" "Flight"
Collections	Prisons We Choose to Live Inside The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
Autobiography/ memoirs	Under My Skin Alfred and Emily
Related	Canopus in Argos The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Flight (Lessing story)

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