Follows Lewis Lambert Strether, a middle-aged widower, on a mission to Europe to convince his fiancée's wayward son to forsake the pleasures of Paris and return to America.

This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with the South Bend Times. Six years later, he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary...

The Revolt of Man is the satire of a female-dominated society of the 22nd century. Sir Walter Besant was a very broaden spirit, very attentive to the problems of his era, and very curious about history and politics. The Victorian era was the beginning of the Women's suffrage. He was the brother-in-law of Annie Besant, a british socialist and activist, persecuted in 1877, for her campaigns for birth control. After two children and a legal separation...

Extrait: "Mes lecteurs ne seraient que très imparfaitement satisfaits, si, les introduisant de suite et sans aucuns préparatifs sur mon théâtre agreste, ainsi que dans tous les secrets de mon BELVÉDÈRE AÉRIEN, je ne les préparais d'avance à ces augustes mystères. Il en est de même de tous les plaisirs de la vie ; le prélude, ainsi que tous les détours enchanteurs par lesquels on arrive au cœur d'une jolie femme, composent la majeure...