[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the authors ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.]
A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
By William Dean Howells
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
The following story was the first fruit of my New York life when I began to live it after my quarter of a century in Cambridge and Boston, ending in 1889; and I used my own transition to the commercial metropolis in framing the experience which was wholly that of my supposititious literary adventurer. He was a character whom, with his wife, I have employed in some six or eight other stories, and whom I made as much the