The Place of HoneymoonsHarold MacGrathOmniClassics · Literature
The Place of Honeymoons
Harold MacGrathAn opera singer's public triumph conceals a private estrangement that a determined admirer hopes to overcome.
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About the book
Edward Courtlandt listens to Eleonora da Toscana at the Paris Opera with an intensity that has little to do with an ordinary evening's entertainment. Wealth and distant travels have not resolved the personal difficulty that brings him back into her orbit. Around the celebrated singer gather admirers, jealousies, and people whose knowledge of her past is incomplete. MacGrath carries the romance into a cosmopolitan world of hotels, villas, and musical society, where social performance can be as elaborate as anything onstage. The reader is asked to discover why these two people cannot speak plainly to one another, rather than simply whether attraction exists. Comedy and sudden adventure complicate a relationship in which pride keeps turning opportunities for explanation into fresh misunderstandings.
- Pride and reconciliation
- Celebrity and privacy
- Misunderstanding in love
Why read it
Courtlandt's tense response to a public performance immediately suggests a private story that the audience around him cannot hear.
English Bobbs-Merrill edition, copyright 1912, illustrated by Arthur I. Keller