Download or read book A Tragic Idyl written by Paul Bourget and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a romance set in France and starts in Nice at the time of the Carnival. The Casino is thronged with a very diverse collection of humanity; kings and princes; bourgeois and working class. The protagonists of the story are three Americans, a man and two women, who as the novel begins, are seated in a corner of one of the gambling halls.