Orpheus in Mayfair
- London: Mills & Boon, 1909
London: Mills & Boon, 1909. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 306pp. + 2pp. ads to rear. Light sunning to the spine, minor bumping to spine ends and extremities; internally clean with some light soiling and spotting to prelims, very light cosmetic cracking to rear inner hinge. A very good copy.
A collection of 25 tales with some esoteric content, including an eerie preminition of murder, the reworking of a calssical Greek myth to contemporary upper crust London, and a rather splendid William Hope Hodgson-esque vision of the planet Venus being occupied by enormous caterpillars grazing on titanic mushrooms. Very much a Gentleman of Letters, from the Baring banking family, and certainly not lacking the leisure time for literary pursuits, Baring produced some very complex and satisfying fictions of the weirder sort.
A collection of 25 tales with some esoteric content, including an eerie preminition of murder, the reworking of a calssical Greek myth to contemporary upper crust London, and a rather splendid William Hope Hodgson-esque vision of the planet Venus being occupied by enormous caterpillars grazing on titanic mushrooms. Very much a Gentleman of Letters, from the Baring banking family, and certainly not lacking the leisure time for literary pursuits, Baring produced some very complex and satisfying fictions of the weirder sort.