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Originally published in 1924, The Constant Nymph tells the story of how a teenage girl falls in love with a family friend, who eventually marries her cousin. The two girls show mutual jealousy over their common love for the man. The novel was a bestseller after it was first... Read Full Overview

The Constant Nymph chronicles the complicated relationships within two families, primarily focusing on the character of Lewis Dodd, a charismatic, talented composer, and Tessa Sanger, the teenage daughter of his mentor, whose passionate love defies societal norms. Set against... Read Full Overview

The Constant Nymph is a poignant and unconventional love story that explores art, passion, and emotional innocence against the backdrop of bohemian Europe in the early 20th century.

The novel centers on Tessa Sanger, a sensitive and devoted teenage girl, one of... Read Full Overview

Tessa is the daughter of a brilliant bohemian composer, Albert Sanger, who with his "circus" of precocious children, slovenly mistress, and assortment of hangers-on, lives in a rambling chalet high in the Austrian Alps. The fourteen-year-old Tessa has fallen in love with Lewis... Read Full Overview

Adapted by Margaret Kennedy, from her own novel, with Basil Dean.10 women, 10 men

"Brilliant portraiture ... the clash between two incompatible worlds. Kennedy finds herself well to the front among novelists." - New York Times

"The Constant Nymph is startlingly modern in its outlook, the bohemian world it conjures being in many ways... Read Full Overview

"The Constant Nymph" is a compelling exploration of the clash between bohemian idealism and the rigid constraints of traditional society. Centered on the eccentric and chaotic Sanger family-famously known as "Sanger's Circus"-the novel follows the lives of the children of... Read Full Overview

" The Constant Nymph is] one of the best novels old or new, that had ever absorbed a reader's attention during the still hours."--Augustine Birrell, the New Statesman, December 6, 1924

Lewis Dodd, a young, troubled composer, arrives at "Sanger's... Read Full Overview

"The Constant Nymph" is a compelling exploration of the clash between bohemian idealism and the rigid constraints of traditional society. Centered on the eccentric and chaotic Sanger family-famously known as "Sanger's Circus"-the novel follows the lives of the children of... Read Full Overview