Hare And Tortoise
Unknown · 1925
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Description
Hare and Tortoise is a novel by Pierre Coalfleet, author of Solo, copyrighted in 1925. Its first chapter opens on a husband reading aloud to his wife. Keble Eveley's voice rose and fell in shapely patterns as he read. The flow of the sentences lulled his wife's mind into a calm remoteness, the narrator says. She took more from the winding of the prose than from the thought it upheld.
Walter Pater had so little to tell her that she needed to know, the passage goes on. This vaguely vexed her, for Keble thought highly of Pater. She caught herself at a dangerous word, affected, and wondered if it fitted her husband. Or was there a sifted level of culture far east of these rough hills, she mused, where such fine phrases were the common coin?
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1925 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 336 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |