The narrator grows up in Saxonholme, a quaint red-brick English hamlet, the son of a country doctor, and is sent abroad to study medicine. In Paris, with his lively friend Müller, he finds cafés, students’ quarters and a love that leads him into folly, all recalled from the distance of later life.
A romantic novel by the writer who later became a celebrated Egyptologist, rich in its picture of student Paris. Download the free EPUB.