A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West

A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West is a farmers fiction written by Hamlin Garland, an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher.

In this story of "A Spoil of Office" it was my intention to treat life as it would present itself to a young Western man of humble condition, who should set himself to the task of winning a political success. I have therefore maintained with considerable care the point of view of Bradley Talcott. Such a design loses in variety but gains, it seems to me, in unity and continuity of movement.