She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts. Virginia Woolf
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This is a classic novel. It's the story of a young girl who falls in love with another man when her husband is away at sea and the religious and legal implications that follow.

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