Two elderly lodgers in a Paris boarding house, who both style themselves Madame though only one has married, share a rivalry and a secret in the title novelette. Around it come “Chassé-Croisé”, “The Woman Beater”, “The Eternal Feminine”, “The Silent Sisters” and a courtroom tale, mixing comedy, pathos and irony across French and English settings.
A generous 1903 collection that shows Zangwill’s range beyond his Ghetto stories. Download the free EPUB.