The Mischief-Maker
1913
A young woman is dying in a hospital garden, and she has but one desire: to see Eugène, the man she loved, one last time. But Eugène has vanished, and Lucie's bitter certainty that she has been abandoned propels Madame Christophor into a determined search through the shadows of Edwardian society. What follows is a quiet tragedy of obligation and heartache, as the novel unravels the web of relationships and moral compromises that keep lovers apart. Monsieur Estermen, a man of comfortable selfishness, stands as the novel's counterweight to self-sacrifice, refusing to visit a dying woman whose love he once accepted. Oppenheim, writing at the height of his popularity, crafts a story where duty clashes with desire and where societal expectations press heavily upon those who dare to feel deeply. The novel matters because it captures a vanished era's anxieties about love, class, and what we owe to one another. It is for readers who savor the quiet devastations of pre-World War I fiction, when tragedy could unfold over tea and the cruelest things were left unsaid.
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