Through a newly discovered bacillus, a plain young woman in New York is transformed into a woman of overwhelming beauty. The novel tells how the change came about and what it brings her: gawking crowds, a plague of reporters, concert fame, suitors including the English Lord Strathay, and the slow discovery of what admiration costs.
An early American science-fiction romance from 1900, a satire on the worship of looks that reads surprisingly modern. Download the free EPUB.