id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3388 Howells, William Dean The Man of Letters as a Man of Business .txt text/plain 12868 426 66 LITERATURE AND LIFE--The Man of Letters as a Man of Business I think that every man ought to work for his living, without exception, men of business that they can command a hundred dollars a thousand words business talent to go into literature, and the man of letters must keep magazines, and most of the second-best appears first in book form. good, which has first reached the public in book form is in the different he possibly proposes that the author shall publish it at his own expense, if quite as much as the author, and until a book has sold two thousand author cannot help hoping that it has sold much more than the publisher man of business is what kind of book will sell the best of itself, literary men, as it were, without the newspaper readers' knowing it; but publisher as well as the author of his books. ./cache/3388.txt ./txt/3388.txt