One character in this novel speaks with a provincial accent that disappears when he pleads a legal case for his daughter, during which he suffers a stroke.
One character in this novel speaks with a provincial accent that disappears when he pleads a legal case for his daughter, during which he suffers a stroke. Another character is a cook for a camp of loggers whose travel stories provide the protagonist with material. This novel's protagonist angers his wife by helping the office girl Hannah Morrison into a sleigh. After the protagonist's wallet is stolen on a train, he is unable to repay fifteen hundred dollars to Ben (*) Halleck. Later, the protagonist is shot in Whited Sepulchre after unsuccessfully filing for divorce from his wife Marcia Gaylord. For 10 points, name this novel about freelance writer and newspaper editor Bartley Hubbard written by William Dean Howells.
One character in this novel speaks with a provincial accent that disappears when he pleads a legal case for his daughter, during which he suffers a stroke.
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