Painted Veils by James Huneker

Painted Veils

James Huneker

From the author’s notes: This Parable, with its notations and evocations of naked nerves and soul-states, is inscribed in all gratitude to the charming morganatic ladies, les belles impures, who make pleasanter this vale of tears for virile men. What shall it profit a woman if she saves her soul, but loseth love? Now the seven deadly virtues are: Humility, Charity, Meekness, Temperance, Brotherly Love, Diligence and Chastity. And the Seven Deadly Arts are: Poetry, Music, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Drama and Dancing. The book begins: Until the day of her death Easter never forgot that first night in New York. It was the initial twist of her ship’s wheel, and the commonplace happenings which followed her entrance into the Maison Felice were to give force and direction to her entire life.

Unpleasant novel of the theatrical and literary world of that day; the heroine, Easter, (an opera singer) has a mannish hanger-on.


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Genre Pulp
Copyright Date 1920
Publication Date 1930
Publisher Werner Laurie
Format Hardcover
Notes A** rating in Grier
Language English
Rating Average
Subject Lesbians – Fiction
BookID 9557

Author: LFWBooks