Oh, the memory of Elinor Glyn! When she was alive to write books like The Point of View, she was hot stuff -- she worked in Hollywood in the 1920s, in fact! But these days she's just remembered as a woman who wrote a whole slue of semipornographic novels. Not really fair, since they weren't indecent enough to cause her trouble back in the day, and the laces on those straight-laced book-buyers were a darned sight straighter back then. Give The Point of View a try, we say: dirty or not, Elinor Glyn could write. Honest! That's why we reprint her: we like the work, even if it is slightly scandalous.

Author Biography

Elinor Glyn (1864 - 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialized in romantic fiction that was considered scandalous for its time. Although her works are relatively tame by modern standards, she had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and perhaps on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow in particular.