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Hero is strapping, serious-minded André Brelet, son of a bankrupt shipbuilder, who as a last resort takes a job as an Abbey guide. His wife Laura is the spoiled daughter of a bankrupt millowner, sullen, snobbish, shallow, a shrewish jade from her blonde head to her painted toes...
Once André and Laura are badly settled in their bleak Abbey apartment, the rest of the story dramatizes the question, Whom will André give in to?-his wife, who despises his job, or the Abbey, which at first depresses him, then begins "nibbling" at him, finally swallows him up completely. Instead of the musty, semi-mechanical creatures he expected to find in his fellow guides, he finds sophisticated, witty, sensitive men who have simply come to prefer life in the Abbey to the corrupt world of "the people down below." Treacherous, putty-like quicksands and fog, harsh winters...
...TELL OF TIME-Laura Krey -Houghton Mifflin...
Divorced. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, Republican National Chairman, by Laura Hall Hamilton; in Topeka, Kans. Charges: "Gross neglect of duty, abandonment for more than a year...
...first tight knot that history made in time." Whether or not her unraveling of that knot and its ensuing threads will please all masculine readers, it is an exploration of legend that turns up many a psychological find, pieces together many a broken sherd of human nature. Laura Riding does not tamper with the main outline of Troy's well-known story. But she finds the clue to the Trojan War not in Paris' seduction of Helen but in the opposing temperaments of the Greeks, whose civilization is on the make, and the Trojans, whose civilization...