The Great God Success: A Novel
CONTENTS
“O your college paper, I suppose?”
“No, I never wrote even a letter to the editor.”
“Took prizes for essays?”
“No, I never wrote if I could help it.”
“But you like to write?”
“I’d like to learn to write.”
“You say you are two months out of college—what college?”
“Yale.”
“Hum—I thought Yale men went into something commercial; law or banking or railroads. ‘Leave hope of fortune behind, ye who enter here’ is over the door of this profession.”
David Graham Phillips
THE GREAT GOD SUCCESS
A NOVEL
THE GREAT GOD SUCCESS
I. — THE CANDIDATE FROM YALE.
II. — THE CITY EDITOR RECONSIDERS.
III. — A PARK ROW CELEBRITY.
IV. — IN THE EDGE OF BOHEMIA.
V. — ALICE.
VI. — IN A BOHEMIAN QUICKSAND.
VII. — A LITTLE CANDLE GOES OUT.
VIII. — A STRUGGLE FOR SELF-CONTROL.
IX. — AMBITION AWAKENS.
X. — THE ETERNAL MASCULINE.
XI. — TRESPASSING.
XII. — MAKING THE MOST OF A MONTH.
XIII. — RECKONING WITH DANVERS.
XIV. — THE NEWS-RECORD GETS A NEW EDITOR.
XV. — YELLOW JOURNALISM.
XVI. — MR. STOKELY IS TACTLESS.
XVII. — A WOMAN AND A WARNING.
XVIII. — HOWARD EXPLAINS HIS MACHINE.
XIX. — “I MUST BE RICH.”
XX. — ILLUSION.
XXI. — WAVERING.
XXII. — THE SHENSTONE EPISODE.
XXIII. — EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING.
XXIV. — “MR. VALIANT-FOR-TRUTH.”
XXV. — THE PROMISED LAND.
XXVI. — IN POSSESSION.
XXVII. — THE HARVEST.
XXVIII. — SUCCESS.