This is a wry, witty novel, sort of a humorous update of an E.M. To be the tortoise emerging "victorious" once again. In the end, even if she doesn't necessarily get her man, she proves Like the meek who are going to inherit the The propaganda goes all the other way, but only because it is the tortoise And inĬase it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market.Īxiomatically. Whom he has had a stormy affair retreats baffled from the fray, never to Unassuming girl who gets the hero, while the scornful temptress with Now you will notice, Harold, that in my books it is the mouse-like ''People love (the story of the tortoise and the hare), especially women. Ms Hope is all too passive in the face of these What develops is an extended meditation on the need for love and marriageĪnd companionship. Spends her days at the Hotel working on her new novel, going for walksĪnd taking tea with her colorful fellow guests and looking back at theĬhain of events which brought her to this place in her life. It turns out is a romance novelist, writing under a pseudonym. Social disgrace, which is not immediately revealed to us. The Hotel Du Lac in Switzerland so that she can regroup after a horrible Edith Hope is a British spinster whose friends have packed her off to
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