Beautiful prose, set in Greek revolution, with characters that I could not care about... It may have been great for 1920, but it does not age well. ( )

I've enjoyed other books by VSW, including The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, but I found this desperately boring and could only finish it by skipping some of the endless paragraphs of over-flowery description and melodramatic dialogue. I find Vita fascinating but she was right not to have this published during her lifetime. ( )