Scarlet Sails

Green was thinking and writing "Scarlet Sails" amid death, hunger, and typhus. The light and calm force of this book is beyond words—except those chosen by Green himself. Suffice it to say that it is a story about a miracle two people performed for each other. And a writer—for all of us…

Green wrote “about storms, ships, love accepted and rejected, about fate, the secret paths of the soul and the meaning of chance.” In the features of his heroes there is firmness and tenderness; the heroines’ names sound like music. In his books, Green created a romantic world of human happiness. "Scarlet Sails" is a tender poem about love, Green’s “strange” book—written passionately and sincerely, a book in which the fairy tale of the scarlet sails becomes reality, a book “lit through and through, like morning sun”—a love of life, of the soul’s youth, and a belief that when a person reaches for happiness, they are capable of working miracles with their own hands…