Youth
Critique • Quotes
First publication
1898
Literature form
Story
Genres
Literary
Writing language
English
Author's country
England
Length
Approx. 14,000 words
Notable lines
This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement of travel, or of bread-winning.
— First line
"O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!"
"To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight—to me she was the endeavor, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret—as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her.... Pass the bottle."
And we all nodded at him [...] our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone—has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash—together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.
— Last line
Critique • Quotes