The Nest-Builder: A Novel 9789357487573 presenting readers with a window

presenting readers with a window into the manners and morals of 18th-century England

Through first-hand accounts

The novel explores the conflict between personal belief and societal expectations

The poem portrays Troilus's idealized love for Criseyde and his agony as he witnesses her growing affection for another man

The Nest-Builder: A Novel 9789357487573 presenting readers with a windowThe Nest Builder: A Novel traces an artist's turbulent voyage homeward across the Atlantic aboard a grand liner, where a young painter wrestles with disillusionment and a bohemian soul adrift between Parisian elegance and American pragmatism. Amid choppy Irish Sea waves, he surveys fellow passengers with scorn for their mundane lacks, haunted by a joyless Michigan upbringing tangled in family strife. Nostalgia for artistic havens clashes with harsh