'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'

Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a...

'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life,...

'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow...

'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy'

Mrs...

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with...