A Far Country — Complete

The narrator, a corporation lawyer who frames his tale as the autobiography of a romanticist, recounts his development from imaginative boyhood into an adult shaped by ambition, desire, and compromise. He interweaves candid reflection on inner motives with episodes from family life, schooling, business and politics, showing how personal aspirations and social expectations produce both noble impulses and moral failings. Early shocks—a whispered domestic scandal, parental authority, and punitive confinements—awaken a yearning to astonish and vindicate himself. The narrative follows his attempts to reconcile romantic longings with pragmatic success and examines the costs of self-interest and the construction of identity in modern America.