On a sweltering veranda, a lean, argumentative professor lectures his old friend Trednoke on the ancient seas beneath their feet. Into this leisurely household come a resourceful man named Freeman and a troubled Don Miguel, and the talk of buried ages gives way to a short romance of danger, rivalry and love.
A brief romance by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, for readers curious about his once-popular fiction. Download the free EPUB.