Este autor británico es un maestro del cuento corto, célebre por sus relatos ingeniosos y a menudo macabros que satirizaron hábilmente la sociedad eduardiana. Su obra presenta personajes delicadamente trazados y narrativas meticulosamente construidas, estableciéndolo como una voz significativa en la literatura. El estilo único del autor y su aguda observación de la naturaleza humana han influido en muchos escritores posteriores. Su legado se consolida a través de su agudeza y su perdurable y cautivadora narrativa.
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Francesca Bassington is a somewhat cold and self-contained society woman who values her home and possessions above all else. She lives in a house that was left to a young, underage heiress, Emmeline Chetrof, and Francesca is free to continue living there until Emmeline gets married. Well contented to continue living there forever, Francesca is trying to find a way to stay in the house, maneuvering with her son Comus, a self-centered young man whose irresponsibility may have been excusable and endearing when he was young but whose flippancy and fecklessness has now become a sore point between him and his mother