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Winston Churchill was born on November 10th, 1871 in St. Louis, Missouri. Tragically his mother died soon after his birth, and he was thereafter raised by Emma’s half-sister, Louisa and her husband.He was educated at Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, and graduated in 1894. Whilst there he was recognised as a diligent student who took part in the complete range of offered activities. He became an expert fencer and also organized and captained, at Annapolis, the first eight-oared crew.After leaving he became an editor of the Army and Navy Journal.In 1895, Churchill became managing editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, but within twelve months he resigned in order to pursue his own writings full time.Despite his own background of privilege and money this move to a literary career was undoubtedly supported in every way by his marriage in 1895 to the St Louis heiress, Mabel Harlakenden Hall.Her support, together with the brilliance of his talents, helped ensure a full-time literary career. In time his writings would cover a spectrum from novels to poems to essays and plays.His first novel to appear in book form was ‘The Celebrity’ (1898). However, ‘Mr Keegan's Elopement’ had been published in 1896 as a magazine serial and only as a hardback in 1903. Churchill's next novel—'Richard Carvel’ (1899)—was a phenomenal success, selling two million copies. It brought fame, a very appreciative audience and riches. He followed this with two further best sellers: ‘The Crisis’ (1901) and ‘The Crossing’ (1904).These early novels were historical, but he gradually moved to setting later ones in more contemporary settings and to include his political ideas.In the 1890s, Churchill's writings came to be confused with those of the British writer/politician with the same name. At that time, the American was the far better known of the two. It fell to the Englishman to write to his counterpart regarding the confusion their name was causing. They agreed that the British Churchill should be styled "Winston Spencer Churchill", this was later reduced to the more familiar "Winston S. Churchill".In 1898, Churchill commissioned a mansion, designed by Charles Platt, to be built in Cornish, New Hampshire. The following year he and his family moved there. It was named after his wife: Harlakenden House. Churchill was keen on both the local art; he became involved in the Cornish Art Colony and its politics; he was elected to the state legislature, as a Republican, in 1903 and 1905.In 1906 a tilt at the Republican nomination for governor of New Hampshire was unsuccessful. In 1912, he was nominated as the Progressive candidate for governor but again lost and thereafter never sought public office again. In 1917, he toured the battlefields of World War I and wrote about the experience in his non-fiction work: ‘A Traveller In War-Time’.Sometime after this he started to paint in watercolors.His books regularly topped the best seller lists. Between 1901-1915 he topped the Bestseller of the year charts six times.In 1919, Churchill decided to stop writing and withdrew from public life. His sales fell and he became slowly forgotten. In 1940, ‘The Uncharted Way’, his first book in twenty years, based on his thoughts on religion, was published. It received little attention or sales.After fifty years of marriage Mabel died in 1945.Shortly before his death Churchill said, "It is very difficult now for me to think of myself as a writer of novels, as all that seems to belong to another life."Winston Churchill died in Winter Park, Florida, on March 12th 1947 of a heart attack. He was 75.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - I may as well begin this story with Mr. Hilary Vane, more frequently addressed as the Honourable Hilary Vane, although it was the gentleman's proud boast that he had never held an office in his life. He belonged to the Vanes of Camden Street, - a beautiful village in the hills near Ripton, - and was, in common with some other great men who had made a noise in New York and the nation, a graduate of Camden Wentworth Academy. But Mr. Vane, when he was at home, lived on a wide, maple-shaded street in the city of Ripton, cared for by an elderly housekeeper who had more edges than a new-fangled mowing machine. The house was a porticoed one which had belonged to the Austens for a hundred years or more, for Hilary Vane had married, towards middle age, Miss Sarah Austen. In two years he was a widower, and he never tried it again; he had the Austens' house, and that many-edged woman, Euphrasia Cotton, the Austens' housekeeper. The house was of wood, and was painted white as regularly as leap year. From the street front to the vegetable garden in the extreme rear it was exceedingly long, and perhaps for propriety's sake - Hilary Vane lived at one end of it and Euphrasia at the other. Hilary was sixty-five, Euphrasia seventy, which is not old for frugal people, though it is just as well to add that there had never been a breath of scandal about either of them, in Ripton or elsewhere. For the Honourable Hilary's modest needs one room sufficed, and the front parlour had not been used since poor Sarah Austen's demise, thirty years before this story opens.

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Excerpt from Mr. Crewe's CareerIn those thirty years, by a sane and steady growth, Hilary Vane had achieved his present eminent position in the State. He was trustee for I know not how many people and institutions, a deacon in the first church, a lawyer of such ability that he sometimes was accorded the courtesy -title of Judge. His only vice - if it could be called such - was in occasionally placing a piece, the size of a pea, of a particular kind of plug tobacco under his tongue, - and this was not known to many people. Euphrasia could not be called a wasteful person, and Hilary had accumulated no small portion of this world's goods, and placed them as propriety demanded, where they were not visible to the naked eye: and be it added in his favour that he gave as secretly, to institutions and hospitals the finances and methods of which were known to him.As concrete evidence of the Honourable Hilary Vane's importance, when he travelled he had only to withdraw from his hip pocket a book in which many coloured cards were neatly inserted, an Open-sesame which permitted him to sit without payment even in those wheeled palaces of luxury known as Pullman cars. Within the limits of the State he did not even have to Open the book, but merely say, with a twinkle of his eyes to the conductor, Good morning, John, and John would reply with a bow and a genial and usually witty remark, and point him out to a nobody who sat in the back of the car. So far had Mr. Hilary Vane' s talents carried him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

CONTENTS BOOK 1. CHAPTER I. THE HONOURABLE HILARY VANE SITS FOR HIS PORTRAIT CHAPTER II. ON THE TREATMENT OF PRODIGALS CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF LAW CHAPTER IV. "TIMEO DANAOS" CHAPTER V. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS CHAPTER VI. ENTER THE LION CHAPTER VII. THE LEOPARD AND HIS SPOTS CHAPTER VIII. THE TRIALS OF AN HONOURABLE CHAPTER IX. MR. CREWE ASSAULTS THE CAPITAL CHAPTER X. "FOR BILLS MAY COME, AND BILLS MAY GO" BOOK 2. CHAPTER XI. THE HOPPER CHAPTER XII. MR. REDBROOK'S PARTY CHAPTER XIII. THE REALM OF PEGASUS CHAPTER XIV. THE DESCENDANTS OF HORATIUS CHAPTER XV. THE DISTURBANCE OF JUNE SEVENTH CHAPTER XVI. THE "BOOK OF ARGUMENTS" IS OPENED CHAPTER XVII. BUSY DAYS AT WEDDERBURN CHAPTER XVIII. A SPIRIT IN THE WOODS CHAPTER XIX. MR. JABE JENNEY ENTERTAINS CHAPTER XX. MR. CREWE: AN APPRECIATION (1) BOOK 3. CHAPTER XXI. ST. GILES OF THE BLAMELESS LIFE CHAPTER XXII. IN WHICH EUPHRASIA TAKES A HAND CHAPTER XXIII. A FALLING-OUT IN HIGH PLACES CHAPTER XXIV. AN ADVENTURE OF VICTORIA'S CHAPTER XXV. MORE ADVENTURER CHAPTER XXVI. THE FOCUS OF WRATH CHAPTER XXVII. THE ARENA AND THE DUST CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VOICE OF AN ERA CHAPTER XXIX. THE VALE OF THE BLUE CHAPTER XXX. P.S.

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