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Excerpt from The Bread-Winners: A Social Study The Bread-winners, the only novel my father ever attempted, was written in 1882. It was first published anonymously in The Century Magazine in 1883-1884, and aroused a good deal of curious comment as to its authorship. It was issued in book form by Harper Brothers in 1883, and went through several editions. Although the work was generally attributed to my father, he never acknowledged it. This edition is the first which bears on its title-page the author's name. Though the author was writing for another gen cration of readers, civilization has not changed so much in thirty-odd years that the conditions de scribed have lost their contemporary interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.