Fiction · 1906
The Fortune Hunter
Carl Feuerstein, a penniless actor with a German stock theater company, has a gift for talking his way into other people's money and other men's fiancées — and, over twelve short chapters, he works his way through New York's German immigrant community charming, borrowing, and swindling, until the deceptions he's been juggling finally collide.
Phillips, a former investigative journalist, wrote novels that frequently turned his reporter's eye on the con men, financiers and social climbers of his day. The Fortune Hunter, published in 1906, is one of his shorter, sharper studies of that type.
This Bibliomancer edition presents the complete text in twelve chapters.
Contents
- I — Enter Mr. Feuerstein
- II — Brass Outshines Gold
- III — Fortune Favors the Impudent
- IV — A Bold Dash and a Disaster
- V — A Sensitive Soul Seeks Salve
- VI — Tragedy in Tompkins Square
- VII — Love in Several Aspects
- VIII — A Sheep Wields the Shears
- IX — An Idyl of Plain People
- X — Mr. Feuerstein Is Consistent
- XI — Mr. Feuerstein’s Climax
- XII — Exit Mr. Feuerstein
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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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