Title: Adventures of Colonel Sellers
Subtitle: Edith Wharton and Her Contemporaries
Description: This book was not written for private circulation among friends; it was not written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author's; it was not thrown off during intervals of wearing labor to amuse an idle hour.  It was not written for any of these reasons, and therefore it is submitted without the usual apologies.
Subjects: Fiction, Legislators, Political corruption, Businessmen, Speculation, City and town life, Politics and government, Classic Literature
Places: Washington (D.C.), United States
Time periods: To 1878