The narrator, a lawyer, has known the Celebrity since boyhood and never saw a spark of genius in him. Now the fêted author turns up at a summer resort on a western lake travelling incognito under a borrowed name, and the narrator watches the deception tangle him with yachting parties, a camping expedition, a determined young woman and, eventually, the law.
A light satirical first novel by the American Winston Churchill, later the best-selling author of Richard Carvel, poking fun at literary fame. Download the free EPUB.