The Summer Before the Dark vs Three Lives: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Women in fiction, Women, Fiction

Cover of The Summer Before the Dark

The Summer Before the Dark Doris Lessing · 1973 ★★★★☆ 3.6 250 pages · ≈ 4 h 38 m · Moderate Find on Amazon

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Cover of Three Lives

Three Lives Gertrude Stein · 1909 ★★★☆☆ 3.1 299 pages · ≈ 5 h 32 m · Demanding Find on Amazon

The verdict

Readers rate The Summer Before the Dark higher: 3.6 vs 3.1 from 3001 votes.
The Summer Before the Dark is the easier read (Moderate), Three Lives more demanding (Demanding).

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