A Far Country — Volume 1

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Far Country, Book 1, by Winston ChurchillThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: A Far Country, Book 1Author: Winston ChurchillRelease Date: October 17, 2004 [EBook #3736]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A FAR COUNTRY, BOOK 1 ***Produced by Pat Castevans and David WidgerA FAR COUNTRYBy Winston ChurchillBOOK 1.I.My name is Hugh Paret. I was a corporation lawyer, but by no means a typical one, the choice of my profession beingmerely incidental, and due, as will be seen, to the accident of environment. The book I am about to write might aptly becalled The Autobiography of a Romanticist. In that sense, if in no other, I have been a typical American, regarding mycountry as the happy hunting-ground of enlightened self-interest, as a function of my desires. Whether or not I havecompletely got rid of this romantic virus I must leave to those the aim of whose existence is to eradicate it from ourliterature and our life. A somewhat Augean task!I have been impelled therefore to make an attempt at setting forth, with what frankness and sincerity I may, with thosepowers of selection of which I am capable, the life I have lived in this modern America; the passions I have known, theevils I have ...