Set amid political tension in Dublin, the novel follows a man destroyed by guilt after betraying a comrade. It portrays the dark underside of a city where revolution and ordinary life collide.

Betrayal and guilt steadily drive the protagonist toward collapse in the darkness of the city.

A biographical study of Isabelle de Charrière and her work. It carefully portrays the thought and emotional life of an eighteenth-century woman writer.

It presents the life of Isabelle de Charrière in the context of literary history.