A prose collection of 25 short stories where each story is titled with a mononym. The book, was described by the author as a book of monologues - perhaps he meant that the stories were not so much speeches of entertainment but one-sided views with no argument or questioning given by someone who is, best to say, not under-confident in their views.
Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was born into a prosperous Irish American family in New York and moved to London as a child. He spent much of his life in the demi-monde world that is the setting of his books and stories. While in Paris he was friends with Oscar Wilde, Leonard Smithers, Aubrey Beardsley and other fin-de-siecle personalities.