Master Oliver, heir to some gift of horseplay and a keen eye for a fine leg, sets out to become great and decides greatness must first know the hair-shirt of adversity. Among painters, writers, actors and talkers such as Doome and Ffolliott in the studios and cafés of London and Paris, he learns what art, love and poverty really cost.
An exuberant, overflowing novel of the 1890s art world by a critic who knew it from the inside. Download the free EPUB.