Aaron King, a young painter with a strange inheritance, goes west to Southern California. There the cynical novelist Conrad Lagrange warns him what selling out to wealthy patrons does to an artist, the fashionable Mrs. Taine tempts him toward easy fame, and a mountain girl who plays the violin shows him another way to live and work.
One of the bestselling American novels of 1914, a moral romance about art, money and integrity. Download the free EPUB.