Salome and the Head
Author: first_name: E.
last_name: Nesbit
Language: English
Year: 1909

Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a strange girl dancing in a clearing, to the music of a penny whistle played by a crippled boy. Eight years later, on his return from the war, he traces the girl, now a young woman, and her musician, and gets deeply involved in their strange history and their stranger future.
Edith Nesbit's story is strongly coloured by society's constraints on the lives of w