Hearn from Leucadia to Martinique

The heart-rending story of an orphan with parents, and the many crooked and cruel twists of fate he suffers in the first forty years of life as he goes from a privileged childhood to a poverty-stricken manhood. From Greece, the story moves to Ireland, France and England, thence to Cincinnati where our hero becomes a sensationalist newspaperman and marries a black woman; thence to New Orleans for a decade of literary editing and finally to Martinique, that promised tropical land, where he finds it much easier to make love than work.