This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Robert William Chambers, a successful, influential and chameleonic writer

First published in 1904, "A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories" is a collection of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, author of the bestseller "The King in Yellow." A marvellous collection of ten light romantic tales set in America in which Chambers' love of fishing and hunting and natural scenery prevails. "A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories" brings together some of Chambers' most engrossing shorter pieces.
The title story is an interesting comedy of coincidence which has an atmospheric setting of nocturnal snow in New York.