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The Model Millionaire eBooks
by Oscar Wilde
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The Model Millionaire Summary
| UNLESS one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realised. Poor Hughie! Intellectually, we must admit, he was not of much importance. He never said a brilliant or even an illnatured thing in his life. But then he was wonderfully goodlooking, with his crisp brown hair, his clear-cut profile, and his grey eyes. He was as popular with men as he was with women and he had every accomplishment except that of making money. His father had bequeathed him his cavalry sword and a HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR in fifteen volumes. Hughie hung the first over his looking-glass, put the second on a shelf between RUFF’S GUIDE and BAILEY’S MAGAZINE, and lived on two hundred a year that an old aunt allowed him. He had tried everything. He had gone on the Stock Exchange for six months; but what was a butterfly to do among bulls and bears? He had been a tea-merchant for a little longer, but had soon tired of pekoe and souchong. Then he had tried selling dry sherry. That did not answer; the sherry was a little too dry. Ultimately he became nothing, a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no profession. |
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' Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde was arguably literature's most versatile writer. Over the course of two short decades, he was responsible for an astonishing amount of work, genius, scandal, and controversy, producing masterworks in virtually every literary genre. This exceptional collection includes nearly every short story the incomparable Wilde published during his exceedingly eventful career, including "The Selfish Giant," "The Fisherman and His Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." |
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