One warm June afternoon Professor Valeyon is visited by Bressant, a powerfully built young man of unusual intellect and almost no knowledge of the world. Living under the professor’s roof, he is drawn to both daughters, the lively Sophie and the proud Cornelia, and the triangle tests his character and theirs.
The first novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s son, a psychological romance of 1873. Download the free EPUB.