Ronald Fraser 4 hr 4 min read

Contemplating the figures and flowers on Chinese porcelain and paintings, a mind is drawn into their world, following the half-wanton beckonings of an ancient system of thought.

Ronald Fraser's 1926 novel is a delicate, meditative fantasy inspired by Chinese art and philosophy. Subtle, dreamlike, contemplative. Read it for a quietly enchanting reverie that steps through a museum picture into an ancient and mystical way of seeing.

In its time

Published in 1926, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 4 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).