Count D'Orgel's Ball (New York Review Books Classics)

Count d’Orgel is handsome, charming, and carefree — the epitome of French aristocracy. His newest protégé is François de Séryeuse, one of the...more

Count d’Orgel is handsome, charming, and carefree — the epitome of French aristocracy. His newest protégé is François de Séryeuse, one of the few young men wise enough not to try to be older. The Countess, from a proud, old family, is young and pure and loves her husband more than anything in the world. But from the moment François met the d’Orgels, backstage at the circus, all three have been dancing together in a roundelay of marital and adulterous love, deception, and self-deception. At Count d’Orgel’s masquerade ball, the real disguises are those of the human heart.   less