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A restless young woman’s yearning for romance propels an episodic tale that moves from domestic routine to sea voyages and exotic, often perilous settings. Romantic entanglements, theatrical ambitions, and devised stratagems bring honeymoon comforts, quarrels, opium-suggestive enchantments, and encounters that test loyalties and fortunes. Scenes shift between light comedy and melodramatic danger—dawn sailings, jungle graves, public spectacles—while recurring themes of desire, fate, and social expectation reshape relationships and produce reversals of status and bittersweet reckonings.

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Title: The White Kami: A Novel

Author: Edward Alden Jewell

Release date: August 11, 2020 [eBook #62907]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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THE WHITE KAMI


BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

THE
CHARMED CIRCLE

“Possessed of unusual strength and intensity. His characters are all sharply individualized and fit competently into the picture. They are interesting people and alive to the point of giddiness. Mr. Jewell has touched them with the fresh, electric buoyancy that distinguishes his book throughout.”—The Literary Review

“The extraordinary plot is the plot of a melodrama, but its handling is the work of a literary artist and an authentic humourist.”—The Chicago Evening Post

“As sunny as ‘Seventeen’ and as subtle as ‘The Age of Innocence.’ There will be thousands to delight in it, with tears and chuckles.”—Wilson Follett

NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF


The White Kami

A NOVEL

BY
Edward Alden Jewell

NEW YORK ALFRED · A · KNOPF MCMXXII

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
EDWARD ALDEN JEWELL

Published, April, 1922

Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


To
MY FATHER AND MOTHER

C’est un ordre des dieux qui jamais ne se rompt,
De nous vendre un peu cher les grands biens qu’ils nous font.—Corneille