Publisher's Synopsis
This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories intended for use at A Level. The complete, original text is accompanied by an introduction, activities for before, during and after study, as well as notes.;Set in the 1920s, this is the disturbing story of rich Americans cast adrift in Mediterranean Europe. Dick Diver, a potentially brilliant young psychiatrist, marries a wealthy patient and is gradually corrupted by the opulence and amorality of the society into which they are drawn.
