New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. “It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now.” —"Barry Lyndon”, Stanley Kubrick. Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954) was an American writer who, throughout most of his oeuvre, was primarily interested in exploring bourgeois decadence and the faux-intellectual milieu of the wealthy..... More