Nymph Errant

by James Laver

hardcover early edition book

276 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1932

About the author

James Laver, CBE, FRSA was an English author, critic, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959. He was also an important and pioneering fashion historian described as "the man in England who made the study of costume respectable".

Reviews

[Louise Culmer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Evangeline, a young English girl from North Oxford, has been at a finishing school in Switzerland for three years and is now going home. On the train to Paris she meets André, a sophisticated Frenchman who persuades her to accompany him to Deauville instead of going home. This is the beginning of a succession of adventures which sees Evangeline experiencing life in bohemian Paris, a German nudist colony, a palace in Venice, and eventually a Turkish harem, with a succession of men who pass in and out of her life. This is an entertaining novel if you fancy reading something very light and frothy into which reality never intrudes.