The Starling

[nice clean book, spine slightly turned, light shelfwear; jacket lightly edgeworn, a couple of tiny tears near base of spine]. "A sympathetic portrayal of the career of Marcia Fennell, young war widow and habitue of London's smart life, whom all men desired as mistress but not as wife. Marcia Fennell was the daughter of a drunken lady novelist of the Yellow Book era and of a R.A. painter who had once been intimate with Sargent and Oscar Wilde, but who had lived beyond his vogue. In an atmosphere of futility and decay there bloomed this exotic child-woman Marcia, like a pallid and sensuous orchid in a dark swamp tangle." This was the first book by the author (1891-1982), a prolific British novelist and historical biographer.

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Publisher: The Century Co.

Year: (c.1927)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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