Europa The Days of Ignorance

"...a psychological novel of gilded youth in the late 19th and early 20th century, exposed to the maelstrom of society caught, in the meshes of petty intrigue, curious gossip, slurring innuendoes about those in high places, extravagance and vice and perversion, glimmers of an escape from the trammels of tradition, struggles toward a philosophy that took thought of humanity, attempts at an art which defied the classical standards. There's more unity and sanity than in The Polyglots -- but there's something of that madness..."--Kirkus