Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good. 1950. Oxford University.

Translated by Christopher Fry

According to Atkinson (Times), a play "of many moods wistfully romantic, satirical, fantastic To make his points about love (the author) has invented a fable about twin brothers Frederic, who is shy and sensitive, and Hugo, who is heartless and aggressive. Frederic is in love with a hussy who is in love with Hugo. To save Frederic from an unhappy marriage, Hugo tries to distract him by bringing to a ball a beautiful dancer who masquerades as a mysterious personage and becomes the triumph of the occasion. She is a susceptible maiden in her own right. She not only breaks up all the cynical romances that have been going on before she arrived, but loses her own heart as well."