
Not even in "Three Weeks," "It," and other of her world famous stories of love has Elinor Glyn written so powerfully and revealingly about passion as in GLORIOUS FLAMES. Here is the story of four people who tried to play with love and burnt their hearts in its glorious flames. They tried to bring about a cold and loveless marriage; they tried to cover up a sordid love affair. But the power of love was greater than they. Not till they expiated, in shame and suffering, their sin against love, did its glorious flames cease to wound them, and become for them a guiding light to ecstatic happiness. You will be thrilled by this pulsatingly passionate story. Never has Elinor Glyn created such gorgeous characters. The two worldly wise gentlemen who tried to outwit love and trapped themselves, the woman Anthea, who wanted love less than the other good things of life, and ended by sacrificing her world for love; and above all Natasha, creature of ultimate fascination, Natasha of the unworldly eyes, the electric caresses, the conquering passions, the woman who could use the senses as keys to open the doors of the soul.