Publisher's Synopsis
"The Sirens mean Romance. They awaken that restive yearning within the heart which practical wisdom strives to quell. They disenchant from the governable life with its gregarious ease and communicable satisfactions. They incite to the sole adventure; they promise a reward remote from the smiling continent of pleasures, isled in pain, attained and lost alone. They promise joy, the stress and puissance, which carries the soul out to the great verges, and holds her in ecstasies of incredible life."
--Viewpoints in Essays
