# The Romance of an Old Fool

Author: Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919

Genre: Category: Romance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20661

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Romance+of+an+Old+Fool+Field&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

If it had not been for Bunsey, the novelist, I might have attained the heights. As a critic Bunsey has never commanded my highest admiration, and yet I have had my tender moments for him. From a really exacting standpoint he was not much of a novelist, and to his failure to win the wealth which is supposed to accompany fame I may have owed much of the debt of his sustained presence and his fondness for my tobacco. Bunsey had started out in life with high ideals, a resolution to lead the purely literary existence and to supply the market with a variety of choice, didactic essays along the line of high thinking; but the demand did not come up to the supply, and presently he abandoned his or...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-an-old-fool-20661/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-an-old-fool-20661/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-an-old-fool-20661/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-an-old-fool-20661/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-an-old-fool-20661/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-an-old-fool-20661/chapters/6/index.md)