L'Envoyé Extraordinaire

A Novella in Three Parts

De: Jon Finson

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

As he regards the sumptuously recumbent form of young Auguste Van Met on New Year’s morning, 1891, Supreme Court Justice Julian Louweneel cannot escape his disquiet at the ineluctable passage of time, not to mention a possible return of his wife from holiday. How will the Judge deal with the intense love between him and his protégé? He hopes with wit and compassion. “It’s mysterious, so very mysterious,” Julian muses to himself, “And we’re placed here below just to endure it. And doing so graciously makes all the difference!” Set amidst the colorful turmoil of fin de siècle New York, this historical novella exposes the interactions of all the Gilded Age’s social strata, from the Knickerbocker aristocracy among “The Great 400” to the nouveaux Irish riche to working-class immigrants, blacks, and even the lowliest Irish servants.