The Dancer in Yellow by W. E. Norris
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ePublished by
September 2025
Originally published 1903
Fiction, W. E. Norris collection
Author: W. E. Norris
ePublished by
September 2025
Originally published 1903
Fiction, W. E. Norris collection
Author: W. E. Norris
W. E Norris novels are fun to read. He possessed a timeless sense of humor that makes almost every paragraph a delight to read. As stated in the foreword to My Friend Jim: “Norris wields a well-honed dry wit like a rapier, in such an effective style that the subtlety and delightfulness of his barbs are not lost even a century and a half later.”
The Dancer in Yellow follows a familiar theme for Norris, having its primary character start out chasing after an inappropriate relationship with an inappropriate woman, while a far better choice later comes into focus and is obviously available to him—obviously to the reader at least. As usual with Norris novels, whatever twists and turns might happen in this obtuse-but-thoroughly-decent man’s life, the immersion in Victorian-era English society, provided as a matter of course in every Norris novel, is every Anglophilic, historical-fiction-loving reader’s dream.
The Dancer in Yellow follows a familiar theme for Norris, having its primary character start out chasing after an inappropriate relationship with an inappropriate woman, while a far better choice later comes into focus and is obviously available to him—obviously to the reader at least. As usual with Norris novels, whatever twists and turns might happen in this obtuse-but-thoroughly-decent man’s life, the immersion in Victorian-era English society, provided as a matter of course in every Norris novel, is every Anglophilic, historical-fiction-loving reader’s dream.