Classic fiction

For Jacinta

by Harold Bindloss

332 pages · First published 1907

Englishman Austin works aboard a Spanish mail steamer moving among the Canary Islands when he becomes increasingly fascinated by the capable and socially magnetic Jacinta Brown. Their relationship develops against a wider adventure involving commerce, difficult ventures, salvage, and travel that eventually reaches West Africa. Ambition and class complicate attraction as both characters try to determine what kind of future their circumstances will allow. Harold Bindloss combines early-twentieth-century romance with maritime and commercial adventure in a novel whose changing settings keep personal loyalties under pressure.