Simon the Jester

Complete and unabridged, with 49 full-page plates by Claude Monet, William Orpen and Théophile Steinlen. Simon de Gex, MP, is told he has six months to live and decides to spend them arranging other people's happiness — with the detachment of a man who will not be there for the consequences. Then the diagnosis is revised. Locke was born in British Guiana and kept an architect's ledgers for ten yea...