"Take Off Your Shoes" is the last novel of the great Voynich from her legendary cycle about the Gadfly. This time the main character is his great-grandmother - the proud, independent, romantic beauty Beatrice Telford, unable to come to terms with the sad fate of her “sold” wife and boldly entering the fight for her feminine happiness. Again and again she has to face the meanness of titled men, with the indifference of the world that protects them, but Beatrice does not bow her head. People from the people come to her aid - honest, courageous and capable of true friendship and sincere devotion...