A Hazard Of New Fortunes V1

""A Hazard of New Fortunes"" is a novel written by William Dean Howells, originally published in 1890. The story revolves around Basil March, a struggling writer who moves to New York City with his wife and two children to try and make a better life for himself. He becomes friends with a wealthy businessman named Dryfoos, who offers him a job as an editor of a new magazine he is planning to launch. Basil accepts the job, but soon finds himself caught up in the complex and often corrupt world of New York City politics and business. Along the way, he also becomes involved in a love triangle with two women, one of whom is married. The novel explores themes of social class, wealth, power, and the American Dream, and provides a vivid portrait of life in late 19th century New York City. This is Volume 1 of the novel, which was originally published in two volumes.Arnus Beaton's studio looked at first glance like many other painters' studios. A gray wall quadrangularly vaulted to a large north light; casts of feet, hands, faces hung to nails about; prints, sketches in oil and water-color stuck here and there lower down; a rickety table, with paint and palettes and bottles of varnish and siccative tossed comfortlessly on it; an easel, with a strip of some faded mediaeval silk trailing from it; a lay figure simpering in incomplete nakedness.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.