A fashionable company gathers near midnight in a city studio to watch an Oriental dance, thrilled to think they are flirting with decadence. Warner follows the rich and their circle through New York drawing rooms, yacht trips to Bar Harbor and speculative schemes, setting the lure of money against charity work in the slums and the strain on a marriage.
A shrewd Gilded Age novel from the co-author, with Mark Twain, of The Gilded Age. Download the free EPUB.