Books: Nymph*

Obscene Genius is Mixed with Thumping Respectability

The Story. A vast obscene man, a Rabelaisian beast, a shaggy musical genius was old Albert Sanger, who early quit his native English shores to wander over the Continent, accumulating mistresses, wives, children, a boar hound, disciples, fame. His ill-mannered, ill-kempt menage was called "Sanger's Circus"; and European society had reason to be thankful that so reprehensible a band spent at least part of its time in a home of its own, the sprawling chalet Karindehütte, high in the Austrian Tyrol.

Sanger's more permanent attachments,...

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