title: The Middle Parts of Fortune (Vintage Classics)
author: Frederick Manning
description: &#160;&#160;&#160;&bull;&#160;"It is the finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read. I read it over once each year to remember how things really were so that I will never lie to myself nor to anyone else about them." --Ernest Hemingway&#160;<br><br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&bull;&#160;"The most truthful and profound exploration of the experiences of war... is to be found in <i>The Middle Parts Of Fortune</i>... Manning explored the moral ambiguities of war in the language of the men with whom he served. He articulated the suffering and comradeship of men who might have no other literary record." --<i>Guardian </i>
zlib_text: THE FORTUNE HUNTER
  1
   THE FORTUNE
  HUNTER
   By DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
  
  THE FORTUNE HUNTER
  2
  CHAPTER I
   ENTER MR. FEUERSTEIN
   On an afternoon late in April Feuerstein left his boarding-house in
  East Sixteenth Street, in the block just beyond the eastern gates of
  Stuyvesant Square, and paraded down Second Avenue.
  A romantic figure was Feuerstein, of the German Theater stock
  company.  He was tall and slender, and had large, handsome features.
  His coat was cut long over the shoulders and in at the waist to show his
  lines of strength and grace.  He wore a pearl-gray soft hat with rakish
  brim, and it was set with suspicious carelessness upon bright blue, and
  seemed to blazon a fiery, sentimental nature.  He strode along, intensely
  self-conscious, not in the way that causes awkwardness, but in the way
  that causes a swagger.  One had only to glance at him to know that he
  was offensive to many men and fascinating to many women.
  Not an article of his visible clothing had been paid for, and the ten-