Wickedly funny and delightfully sad, Three Ladies Beside the Sea is a tale of love found, love lost, and love never-ending. Edward Gorey's off-kilter Edwardian maidens are the perfect accompaniment to Rhoda Levine's lilting rhymes.

The place is remote:

Three houses beside the sea.

The Characters are Few:

Laughing Edith of Ecstasy,

Edith so happy and gay.

Smiling Catherine of Compromise,

She smiles her life away.

And then there is Alice of Hazard,

A dangerous life leads she.

The question in the plot is quite simple:

Why is Alice up in a tree?

The answer can be discovered:

Edith and Catherine do.