Word: overwritten
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...time, convalescing from a wreck, he finds "rounded contentment" with a supple, unpossessive Cornish girl, Jennifer. But she dies in childbirth and Tom wanders the oceans again, to shed life's monotony at last by sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece of the late Lord Tennyson...