Cashel Byron's Profession; Being of the Novels of His Nonage, Also, the Admirable Bashville, and an Essay on Prizefighting (Classic Reprint)

Cashel Byron s Profession without a shudder at the narrowness of my escape from becoming a successful novelist at the age of twenty-six. At that moment an adventurous publisher might have ruined me. Fortunately for me, there were no adventurous publishers at that time ;and I was forced to fight my way, instead of being ingloriously bought off at the first brush. Not that Cashel Byron s Profession was my very first novel. It was my fourth, and was followed by yet another. I recall these five remote products of my nonage as five heavy brown paper parcels which were always coming back to me from some publisher, and raising the very serious financial question of the sixpence to be paid to Messrs Carter, Paterson, and Co., the carriers, for passing them on to the next publisher. Eventually, Carter, Paterson, and Co. were the only gainers ;for the publishers had to pay their readers fees for nothing but a warning not to publish me; and I had to pay the sixpences for sending my parcels on a bootless errand. At last I grew out of novel-writing, and set to work to find out what the world was really like.
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