A boy raised in Brooklyn Heights, bored by Henry Ward Beecher’s sermons and fascinated by the ships below, grows up to become a writer. Over the years the harbour changes his view of the world, from his father’s old warehouses to the efficiency of the great shipping lines and finally the radical vision of his friend Joe Kramer and a strike of the dock workers.
A landmark American social novel of the Progressive Era, alive with the noise of New York’s waterfront. Download the free EPUB.