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Title: A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part First
Author: William Dean Howells
Release Date: October 23, 2004 [EBook #3366]
Language: English
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A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
By William Dean Howells
PART 1
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 hero and heroine of 'Their Wedding Journey' as the slight fable
would bear. In venturing out of my adoptive New England, where I had found myself at home with many imaginary friends,
I found it natural to ask the company of these familiar acquaintances, but their company was not to be had at once for the
asking. When I began speaking of them as Basil and Isabel, in the fashion of 'Their Wedding Journey,' they would ...