Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes
Author: first_name: William Alexander
last_name: Gerhardi
Language: English
Year: 1922

From the preface written by Edith Wharton:<br /><br />
Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of my eager feelers curled up in a tight knot of refusal. But . . . I read on, amused, moved, absorbed, till the tale and the journey ended together.<br /><br />
This, it seems to me, is the most striking quality of Mr. Gerhardi's book: that he has (even in this, his first venture) enough of the true novelist's “objectivity” to focus the two so utt