A young man's idolatry of a charming railroad captain's wife curdles into disillusionment as her husband's fortune collapses and her secret affairs come to light.
Books mentioned in A Lost Lady (4)
St. Elmo by Augusta J. Evans: “She liked to sit down after breakfast and read murder trials, or peruse a well-worn copy of "St. Elmo."”
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding: “Then he read "Tom Jones" and "Wilhelm Meister" and raced on until he came to Montaigne and a complete translation of Ovid.”
Heroides by Ovid: “He read the _Heroides_ over and over, and felt that they were the most glowing love stories ever told.”
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Then he read "Tom Jones" and "Wilhelm Meister" and raced on until he came to Montaigne and a complete translation of Ovid.”