Claude Farrer (1876–1957) is one of the most prominent writers in France, under whose pseudonym was hidden the hereditary naval officer Charles Edouard Bargon, who served in the navy for two decades. And he became famous thanks not only to his fascinating adventure novels, but also to no less exciting novels of love and erotic orientation, the plot development of which allows them to rightfully be classified as works of the adventure genre.

In Farrer’s novel, included in the next volume series "Caprice" - "The Last Goddess" the author masterfully intertwined the love experiences of the aristocratic esthete Folgoet with the terrible events of the First World War, which anticipated the creative achievements of E. Hemingway, who glorified love against the backdrop of war.