Fiction · 1904
The Cost
The Cost, first published in 1904, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- I — A Father Invites Disaster
- II — Olivia to the Rescue
- III — And Scarborough
- IV — A Dumont Triumph
- V — Four Friends
- VI — “Like His Father.”
- VII — Pauline Awakens
- VIII — The Decision
- IX — A Thoroughbred Runs Away
- X — Mrs. John Dumont
- XI — Young America
- XII — After Eight Years
- XIII — “My Sister-in-Law, Gladys.”
- XIV — Straining at the Anchors
- XV — Graduated Pearls
- XVI — Choice Among Evils
- XVII — Two and the Barrier
- XVIII — On the Farm
- XIX — Pauline Goes Into Politics
- XX — A Man in His Might
- XXI — A Coyote at Bay
- XXII — Storms in the West
- XXIII — A Sea Surprise
- XXIV — Dumont Betrays Dumont
- XXV — The Fallen King
- XXVI — A Desperate Rally
- XXVII — The Other Man’s Might
- XXVIII — After the Long Winter
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About the author
1867–1911 · Victorian
David Graham Phillips (1867–1911) was an American journalist and novelist from Madison, Indiana, who worked as a reporter for the New York Sun and then the New York World before turning to muckraking and fiction full-time. His 1906 magazine series "The Treason of the Senate," exposing corrupt ties between senators and business interests, helped drive the constitutional amendment for the direct election of senators; his novels, including Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise and The Conflict, applied the same reforming instinct to American capitalism, politics and the position of women. He was shot and killed outside his New York apartment in January 1911 by a delusional stalker who believed a Phillips novel had libeled his family.
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