num_pages: 64
description: "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."By all that’s wonderful, it is the sea, I believe, the sea itself—or is it youth alone? Who can tell? But you here—you all had something out of life: money, love—whatever one gets on shore—and, tell me, wasn’t that the best time, that time when we were young at sea; young and had nothing, on the sea that gives nothing, except hard knocks—and sometimes a chance to feel your strength—that only—what you all regret?"
language: English
title: Youth: A Narrative
titlecomplete: Youth: A Narrative
characters: Charles Marlow
genres: Literature, Classics, Adventure, English Literature, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Russia, Short Stories, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 3817
series: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
publisher: Penguin Books