Philip Malbone, handsome, sympathetic and fatally unable to deny himself, arrives in the old seaside town of Oldport, a thinly veiled Newport, where he is engaged to the high-minded Hope. Her passionate young half-sister Emilia arrives, Aunt Jane offers dry commentary, and drives, picnics and talks among the cliffs and wrecks draw the household toward a crisis.
The only novel by the abolitionist colonel and Emily Dickinson’s correspondent, a delicate study of a charming egotist. Download the free EPUB.