Ada Leverson — Oscar Wilde’s devoted friend and the woman he called ‘the Sphinx’ — was one of the sharpest and most elegant comic writers of the Edwardian era. The Twelfth Hour (1907) is a bright, witty comedy of manners in which romantic complications and social absurdities play out among the leisured classes with the precision and irony of a writer who knew this world from the inside.
Leverson’s dialogue crackles with intelligence, and her eye for social pretension is perfectly merciless. Download this free EPUB and rediscover one of the most unjustly overlooked comic voices of her remarkable generation.