Zoe or, On the Clockwork Spheres of Paradise — Sean Fraser

PRELUDE is the first of four volumes. It is a Conte de fée of Zoë on a promenade, in France, set in 1913, from the South of France near Montpellier to Boulogne-sur-Mer in the North and all of the persons she meets during her travels who address the philosophy, theories and mores of Religion, Humanity, Mythology, Myth, Reality, and Fey in the state of Existence with the beginning of the Great War lurking, and la Belle Époque and the Second Age of Enlightenment soon to vanish.