Louys was a French writer of historical fiction and especially an authority on the pre-Christian era of the Golden Age of Greece. He was acclaimed for his exquisite prose. This 448-page book contains his best-known novel APHRODITE, as well as the 147 prose SONGS OF BILITIS and the collections THE SANGUINES and THE TWILIGHT OF THE NYMPHS (total of 15 short stories). This thick vintage paperback is somewhat fragile but has no loose or missing pages.