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The story of Paul Clitheroe, whose youth is spent in San Francisco earning a meager living as a writer and actor, and who voyages to the South Sea Islands where he finds happiness in the arms of three young native islanders.
Odd, disjointed and mostly unsuccessful, but an important artifact of gay American lit (1903 - coded but obvious enough). Stoddard had friendly relations with Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Rudyard Kipling among others.