A novel of manners set in turn-of-the-century Paris, in which a young American painter becomes embroiled in a series of romantic and artistic intrigues. Harland's prose style and attention to detail evoke the elegance and sensuality of the fin de si cle literary tradition. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public...