Double Harness - Anthony Hope - Bog

Double Harness is a novel written by Anthony Hope. The story revolves around a young couple, George and Celia Farlow, who have been married for three years. George is a successful businessman who is obsessed with his work, while Celia is a beautiful and charming woman who is bored with her life and her marriage. One day, Celia meets a handsome and charming artist named John Lavender, and she becomes infatuated with him. She starts to spend more and more time with John, and soon they begin an affair. Meanwhile, George is completely unaware of his wife's infidelity and continues to focus on his work. As the story unfolds, Celia realizes that she is torn between her love for George and her passion for John. She must decide whether to stay with her husband, who provides her with financial security but little emotional fulfillment, or to leave him for John, who offers her love and passion but no financial security. The novel explores themes of love, marriage, infidelity, and the struggle between passion and practicality. It is a gripping and emotional story that will keep readers engaged until the very end.1904. Hope was a barrister who gave up the law after realizing success with his novel The Prisoner of Zenda. The book begins: The house-a large, plain, white building with non architectural pretensions-stood on a high swell of the downs and looked across the valley in which Milldean village lay, and thence over rolling stretches of close turf, till the prospect ended in the gleam of waves and the silver-grey mist that lay over the sea. It was a fine, open, free view. The air was fresh, with a touch of salt in it, and made the heat of the sun more than endurable even welcome and nourishing. Tom Courtland, raising himself from the grass and sitting up straight, gave utterance to what his surroundings declared to be a very natural exclamation: What a bore to leave this and go back to town! See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.