MORLEY, Christopher

[85] pp.

Doubleday, Page & Company

1927

First Edition

6 7/8″ x 4 3/4″

Jacket design by E. Mackinstry

“Dame Venus, Love’s lady, was born of the sea,” says the old madrigal. The starting point of this nimbly malicious fantasy is a theme rare enough in fiction, an exact suggestion of the psychic and psychological effects of a sea voyage on a young masculine temperament. Not without some definite intention was the head of Aphrodite carved over the transatlantic steamship piers along the Hudson River. Passing from shipboard to the opal twilights and languors of London autumn the victim encounters the famous little statue of Eros in Picadilly Circus.

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