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Nancy meets Marcus at a party. He is untidy, nervous, shy: women have never paid him any attention. But here is virgin clay from which Nancy can mould her Adam. She marries him, and on their wedding night Marcus realises he is as much her protege in sex as in other fields. But soon he is confident that, under her guiding hands, he had been transformed into a consummate lover; and he begins to feel the urge to slip his leash.

'Elegant, funny and erotic... a good showcase for Brophy's] perceptions on life and art, her wit and her dazzling prose.' "Telegraph"

'Sly and sophisticated...

The tweedy Miss Hetty Braid worships the lovely but selfish Miss Antonia Mount, her co-proprietor at the most exclusive finishing school on the French Riviera. The girls they teach are quite remarkable, though hardly in the sense of academic distinction. But trouble looms when Antonia announces that 'Royalty is coming.' The great day arrives, and though at first things go tolerably well, disaster springs from good intentions.

This Faber Finds edition includes a 1987 introduction by Brigid Brophy and a new preface by Sir Peter Stothard.

'A wicked little entertainment... plaubly not...

Brigid Brophy first published her passionate, profoundly original "Mozart the Dramatist" in 1964, revisiting it subsequently in 1988. Organised by theme, the text offers brilliant readings of Mozart's five most famous operas - "Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," "Le Nozze di Figaro," "Don Giovanni," "Cosi fan tutte," and "Die Zauberflote" - while a 1988 preface reconsiders "Idomeneo" and "La Clemenza di Tito." Brophy's analysis is richly informed by her readings and interests in psychoanalysis, myth, and relations between the sexes, but her stress above all is on Mozart's 'unique excellence',...

Perücken ragen aus der tanzenden Menge, Schönheitspflaster kleben über Altersflecken, von der Decke regnet es Pfefferminztaler, und am Rand beobachten Putten das ausgelassene Treiben: Mit einem opulenten Maskenball feiert die bessere Londoner Gesellschaft das neue Jahr. Als es Mitternacht schlägt, wird die als Donna Anna verkleidete Anna K. von einem mysteriösen Don Giovanni geküsst. Zuerst ergreift sie die Flucht, dann macht sie sich neugierig auf die Suche nach dem Unbekannten. Gleichzeitig führt die junge Ruth akribisch Aufzeichnungen über ihren ersten Ball - und erlebt...