Alberta and Freedom

[This] is a masterpiece... As a writer, Miss Sandel is Maugham's superior. She has not his gift of irony, but her emotional depth is far greater... Miss Sandel is a stylist, a writer of marvelous delicacy...To read it is, in part, to relive the painful experience of growing human.

She has a place to herself among the finest contemporary writing.

Ahead of her time . . . Like Virginia Woolf, though much tougher . . . A classic.

She has a sure poise and distance that has deserted today's novelist.

Excellently translated . . . the fascination lies in the picture, convincing, lively beautifully drawn, of the artists's Paris at the beginning of the 20th Century.