A Fool For Love

by Francis Lynde

Overview

A Fool for Love tells the story of an exciting duel between a railway monarch who is celebrated as a hard fighter, and a young civil engineer, over a strip of track that means the right of way for two competing lines, forms the theme of this novel. The love comes into the story by means of a pretty girl, niece of the railroad magnate, who is divided in her mind between loyalty to her relative and a strong fancy for the young engineer. The story abounds in incident and is brightly and pleasantly told.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014766012
Publisher:	New York: The New York Book Company, 1905
Publication date:	06/11/2012
Series:	Railroading Classics , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	818 KB

About the Author

Francis Lynde (1856-1930) was a prolific writer, with short fiction appearing in magazines like Munsey’s as early as 1894. A decade later, he began a long relationship with The Popular Magazine.

By 1910 when Scribner’s published The Taming of Red Butte Western, Lynde had already published six novels, plus a couple dozen serialized stories in magazines. In later years, three of his stories would find their way to film.