THE CASTAWAY
Reading edition
“Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ’Tis woman’s whole existence....” p. 95.
THE CASTAWAY
THREE GREAT MEN RUINED IN ONE YEAR—A KING, A CAD AND A CASTAWAY
By HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES Author of Hearts Courageous, A Furnace of Earth, etc., etc.
Illustrated by HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1904 The Bobbs-Merrill Company
May
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TO POST WHEELER, LITT. D.
My history will furnish materials for a pretty little Romance which shall be entitled and denominated the loves of Lord B.
Byron, 1804
I hate things all fiction; and therefore the Merchant and Othello have no great associations to me; but Pierre has. There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric, and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Byron, 1817