The Green Mouse

Step back into the elegant world of early twentieth-century American romance with Robert W. Chambers's delightful novel of love, science, and serendipity, presented here in its COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED original text. First published in 1906, The Green Mouse follows a young scientist who believes he has discovered a way to induce love with a few drops of a strange preparation—only to find that the heart, once meddled with, leads everyone involved into a merry tangle of mistaken feelings, witty repartee, and genuine devotion. Chambers, best known today for The King in Yellow, here displays a lighter, sunnier register: sparkling drawing-room dialogue, gentle satire of the fashionable set, and an undercurrent of charm that has kept readers smiling for over a century. This edition pairs the full original text with a new introduction and reader's notes situating the novel in its literary moment. Part of The Founding Texts Library.