num_pages: 156
description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - [The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry - representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher- that is stretched on the staircase wall. On the right is the entrance to the music-room. The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard. The entrance on the left leads to other reception-rooms. MRS. MARCHMONT and LADY BASIL-DON, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa. They are types of exquisite fragility. Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm. Watteau would have loved to paint them.]
language: English
title: An Ideal Husband
titlecomplete: An Ideal Husband
characters: Lord Caversham, Robert Chiltern, Mrs. Cheveley, Mable Chiltern, Lady Chiltern, Lord Goring
genres: Literature, Classics, Drama, Victorian, Plays, 19th Century, Fiction, Romance, Humor, Theatre
ratings_count: 41625
places: London, England
publisher: 1st World Library