Short Fiction
A collection of novellas and short stories by Edgar Saltus.
Edgar Saltus was a writer of decadent fiction with a pessimistic bent and characterized by a wit reminiscent of Oscar Wilde. After his 1887 debut with Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure he wrote many novels, novellas, and short stories in rapid succession, and to great success. Critics condemned his works as immoral and the public was scandalized, but for a while, Edgar Saltus was infamous. His stories weave a common thread: love, lust, greed, distrust, and deceit among the upper classes of late nineteenth-century New York, who also regularly retreat to Paris, the Riviera, London, and other destinations frequented by the era’s super-rich. There are outliers.
- Listening time
- about 36 h 36 min
- Length
- 340,183 words
- Public domain
- the author died in 1921
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
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- Language
- English
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It was not until Miss Menemon’s engagement to John Usselex was made public that the world in which that young lady moved manifested any interest in her future husband. Then, abruptly, a variety of rumors were circulated concerning him. It was said, for instance, that his real name was Tchurchenthaler and that his boyhood had been passed tending geese in a remote Bavarian dorf, from which, to avoid military service, he had subsequently fled. Again, it was affirmed that in Denmark he was known as Baron Varvedsen, and that he had come to this country not to avoid military service, but the death penalty, which whoso strikes a prince of the blood incurs.
Short Fiction · Edgar Saltus
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