Breakers Ahead

by Anna Maynard Barbour

"Breakers Ahead" is the story of the life of young Englishman Thomas Macavoy Denning who, having been expelled from school, leaves home to come to America where he resolves to make for himself a name that equals the name his father made for himself in the Old World. He succeeds in gaining wealth and a position by will, force, and self-confidence. And he succeeds financially; but on the eve of his political triumph, the election to governor of a Western state, a lax past rises up to defeat him.

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First published January 1, 1906

About the author

Anna Maynard Barbour (? -1941) was an American author of best-selling fiction. Anna Barbour was born in Mansfield, New York in the 19th century. Her parents died when she was young. During the late 19th century, she lived in Helena, Montana where she worked for the U. S. Government. She married an English gentleman in 1893, and her husband reportedly encouraged her writing career. In 1907 she became an Episcopal deaconess at the House of Mercy in Boston and subsequently worked in Boston and Tennessee. A 1903 article in the The Atlantic Monthly stated that "A. Maynard Barbour has been generally hailed as the most successful of American writers of mystery. "