# A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1

Author: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3366

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Hazard+of+New+Fortunes+Howells&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 wa...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-hazard-of-new-fortunes-volume-1-3366/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-hazard-of-new-fortunes-volume-1-3366/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-hazard-of-new-fortunes-volume-1-3366/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-hazard-of-new-fortunes-volume-1-3366/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-hazard-of-new-fortunes-volume-1-3366/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-hazard-of-new-fortunes-volume-1-3366/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-hazard-of-new-fortunes-volume-1-3366/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-hazard-of-new-fortunes-volume-1-3366/chapters/5/index.md)