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This classic novel about the truth behind an author's literary legacy is "a brilliant, sophisticated, amusing satire" (Chicago Tribune).

To London's intellectual elite, Edward Driffield was the "Last of the Victorians," a novelist whose works defined an era and shaped English literature. This is how his widow Amy Driffield wishes for her husband to be remembered—and how she asks author Alroy Kear to pen Edward's biography and preserve his legend.

With only a little knowledge of Driffield's ea...