Mike Fletcher is a charming, unscrupulous Irish journalist and poet who conquers women and editors with equal ease. From the din of Lubini’s restaurant to bachelor chambers and country houses, Moore follows him and his friends, among them the austere Catholic John Norton, through love affairs, literary ambition and the slow emptiness of a life devoted to pleasure.
A dark, decadent novel of the 1880s, little read but revealing of Moore’s development. Download the free EPUB.