On a fishing holiday the narrator stumbles on Hartman, a college friend of great promise who has travelled, dabbled in law and then withdrawn to the woods to nurse a gloomy philosophy of life. The narrator and Hartman’s family set out to pull him back into the world, and the story moves from wilderness talk to drawing rooms, a wilful young woman and the cliffs of Newport.
A witty American novel of ideas from the 1880s for readers who like conversation and courtship in equal measure. Download the free EPUB.