One of the most dramatic works by the greatest English master—Rudyard Kipling.
An artist’s fate is always unpredictable. For most, prosperity and success remain only dreams.
The hero of this book is a favorite of fate. Money, fame, and the demanding attention of the public have long since become ordinary, and it is unlikely that anything can still truly stir his thoughts and feelings. But life never stops surprising and quietly tips the scales toward an unrequited love, an unimaginable chain of circumstances, and a blindness that suddenly intensifies and becomes incurable...
Comfort will have to be sought in the embrace of abandoned friends and ... death.