About This Book
This piscareque story set against the most violent days of the French Revolution, is written with the utmost gusto, pace, assurance and romantic color, spiked with a sort of toughness of attitude and coolness of approach that gives astringency to the lushness of the story.
Miss Lindop has combined romance, historical bravura and wry comedy, that finds expressions in the account of the Revolutionary tribunals. She takes a vast pleasure in the detailed development of her more grotesque personages—Manager Smith with his huge umbrella and outsize talent, his enjoyment of life and his dedication to his two professions—acting and theft; Lizzie Weldon the strange, semi-hysterical lady who forms an insatiable passion for Roberts, a genuinely outsize romantic her.
Miss Lindop has combined romance, historical bravura and wry comedy, that finds expressions in the account of the Revolutionary tribunals. She takes a vast pleasure in the detailed development of her more grotesque personages—Manager Smith with his huge umbrella and outsize talent, his enjoyment of life and his dedication to his two professions—acting and theft; Lizzie Weldon the strange, semi-hysterical lady who forms an insatiable passion for Roberts, a genuinely outsize romantic her.