Lord Reggie Hastings pins a green carnation to his coat and goes out into London, and his witty friend Esmé Amarinth talks in perfect epigrams. When the pair spend a summer in the country with the sensible widow Lady Locke, Reggie decides to marry her money, and she must judge what these aesthetes really are.
Published anonymously in 1894, this sharp parody of Wilde’s circle was withdrawn after his trials. Download the free EPUB.