A Virgin Heart: A Novel

The Virgin Heart is the story of Monsieur Hervart's romancing of Rose half his age and full of innocence. In a battle of wills Rose negotiates a world of experience pursuing love in a cynic's heart. Hervart's view of women is that of a man to a beautiful flower to be plucked as he wills. The Virgin Heart explores the dangers and delights of love its coarse brutalities and ultimately its hard won purity.Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) was a French Symbolist poet novelist and influential critic. T. S. Eliot described Gourmont as the critical conscience of his generationThis edition newly formatted and re-edited by Chaucer House Press corrects the typos and mistakes of the previous editions.