A forgotten great narrative from the master of female psychology. The novella, a mirror piece to Henry James's "Daisy Miller," is among the most entertaining works of this profound connoisseur of human nature: a fearless American woman shakes up the world of buttoned-up European aristocracy to carve out a place for herself in these circles. "This writer will not let you go once you have read a line of his." Alexander Cammann, Die Zeit.