A chance encounter in a Parisian café leads to a series of unfortunate ‘misunderstandings’ which threaten to bring to a premature and irreconcilable end the envisioned marriage between a pair of young lovers.
Eligible bachelor Dick Naseby meets the lovely young Esther Van Tromp, whose less-than-respectable father he has had the dubious pleasure of encountering on his travels. Too well-bred and smitten with the lady to confess the truth, he becomes entangled in a series of falsehoods, the ultimate unraveling of which threatens to be his undoing.
The Story of a Lie is a lesson in life encompassing art, alcohol, and deceit in all its forms and is presented here alongside Stevenson’s celebrated short story The Body Snatcher, a macabre tale of human corruption.
About the author
D. J. Taylor is the author of six novels, including Kept: A Victorian Mystery (2006). He is also well known for his biographies: Thackeray (1999) and Orwell: The Life (2003).
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