Double Harness (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Hope, Anthony) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Double Harness To see Anthony Hope as a writer of a problem novel is to see him in a new light, and to read Double Harness (McClure, Phillips & Co.) is to assure, yourself of considerably more than the casual pleasure which attends the reading of a new book. While Mr. Hawkins has dwelt upon the most serious problem of life - the marriage vow and the preservation of the home - he has done it with so much delicacy and honesty of purpose that he does not offend in any particular. Double Harness introduces you to a group of people who for the time being become your world. First in importance are Grantley Imason and his wife Sibylla. She is a dream woman, an idealist - unreal but wonderfully interesting; while he is one of the most attractive characters that Mr. Hawkins has ever drawn. Sweet, indeed, is the courtship of these two. Marriage, however, brings with it a shattering of ideals, and Sibylla for no good reason becomes a woman with a grievance; while Grantley waits patiently and grimly for her to see and to understand things as they really are. There is a dramatic and well-nigh tragic scene one stormy night at a little inn called "Sailors Rest," in which her husband saves her from herself and from another. Then there are half a dozen other admirable types whose inner lives are analyzed for the benefit of the reader. While some persons may look upon Double Harness as a satire, there is nothing satirical about it. It is written with such breadth of sympathy with human nature; and such charity for its frailties, that the reader is left in a hopeful frame of mind, being assured that there is a happy solution for every sex problem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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