Savage Keith Rickman works in his father’s second-hand bookshop, drops his aitches and writes poetry of real genius. Horace Jewdwine, an Oxford critic, thinks he has discovered him, and when Rickman is sent to catalogue the library of Jewdwine’s cousin Lucia Harden in Devon, his love for her and his loyalty to his art pull him through years of poverty in London.
The 1904 novel that made May Sinclair’s name, a rich study of class and the artist’s vocation. Download the free EPUB.