Francesca Bassington loves her house in Blue Street, its furniture and its prized painting, rather more than she loves her son Comus, a handsome, selfish young man who cannot help spoiling his own chances. When the heiress Elaine de Frey becomes his best prospect, his talent for self-sabotage is put to the test.
Saki’s only full-length society novel, ‘a story with no moral’, is a brilliant and bitter comedy of Edwardian manners. Download the free EPUB.