Download The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson. A 1903 general fiction and romance fiction work about John Saxton, western finance, banking, land speculation, personal failure, public confidence and the testing of character in a growing American town. Available in PDF, EPUB, MOBI and AZW3 formats.
About The Main Chance
The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson is a 1903 general fiction and romance fiction work about John Saxton, western finance, banking, land speculation, personal failure, public confidence and the testing of character in a growing American town. Ideal for readers interested in early twentieth-century American fiction, Indiana settings, romance, mystery, social comedy, public life, regional fiction and Nicholson's readable storytelling.
Genres: General Fiction | Romance Fiction
Why Read The Main Chance?
The Main Chance is worth reading because it shows Nicholson's strength as a writer of American social fiction, especially his interest in character, public reputation, regional life and lightly comic complication. First published in 1903, the work is concerned with John Saxton, western finance, banking, land speculation, personal failure, public confidence and the testing of character in a growing American town. Nicholson's fiction often begins with a familiar social world, then introduces secrets, reversals, inheritance questions, political pressures or romantic misunderstandings that disturb its surface ease.
Readers may value the title for its combination of charm and structure. Nicholson writes about American manners with a journalist's eye for institutions and a novelist's pleasure in personality. Houses, banks, college towns, political circles, country estates, drawing rooms and small-town offices all become places where private motives and public roles meet. His plots may be light, but they often depend on the serious matter of how people are known and judged.
The book is also useful for understanding early twentieth-century American popular fiction. Nicholson belonged to the Indiana literary world and wrote at a moment when regional identity, journalism, public service, romance and mystery could sit comfortably together in one readable novel. Modern readers may approach some period assumptions critically, but the works remain valuable for their picture of American confidence, ambition, social charm and moral testing before and after the Progressive Era.
This title adds to the larger Meredith Nicholson collection by showing another variation of his central interest: how character behaves when social expectations become unstable. The Main Chance can be read for plot, period atmosphere, regional history and romantic entertainment, but it is especially useful because Nicholson makes public manners part of the action. His stories repeatedly suggest that identity is proved not by reputation alone, but by conduct under pressure.
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