A Novel
"The English edition of this novel of Parisian life in the eighties brings to the English-speaking world a powerful and realistic tale of the development of spiritual discernment blossoming out of poverty and degradation. The woman, Clotilde, becomes an artist's model and meets all of the great French literati and impresses them with the depth of her thoughts and emotions. There is much philosophizing along the way. The book is saturated with Catholic thought and allusions, but it is by no means a pietistic tract in novel form, for Leon Bloy was an accomplished novelist." Kirkus Review