Unkind Star

by Nancy Hoyt

"The stars, too warm to shine, winked dreamily." This was over Lisbon in 1900. It was a willful star that presided over the birth of two girls: that of Cintra Amory in the American legation, and that of Lilias, Countess Rabenstein, in the Austrian. After that, the cities of Europe were as furniture to the room in which these two cosmopolitan girls moved and played - played, chiefly, with men. The story tells how each of their lives was interlocked in curious ways with the lives of two masculine egoists of different types - the Hungarian Franz Czarany and the Anglo-Irish Terence Down - and how, in ways modified by differing heritage and blood, the same star presided over both their destinies.

267 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1927

About the author

Full name: Nancy McMichael Hoyt.

She was the grandaughter of Henry M. Hoyt and a sister to Elinor Wylie.