The Luck of Roaring Camp
Book Excerpt: ...s de Gaul. The author has been frequently asked if such and such incidents were real,--if he had ever met such and such characters. To this he must return the one answer, that in only a single instance was he conscious of drawing purely from his imagination and fancy for a character and a logical succession of incidents drawn therefrom. A few weeks after his story was published, he received a letter, authentically signed, correcting some of the minor details of his facts (!), and enclosing as corroborative evidence a slip from an old newspaper, wherein the main incident of his supposed fanciful creation was recorded with a largeness of statement that far transcended his powers of imagination.He has been repeatedly cautioned, kindly and unkindly, intelligently and unintelligently, against his alleged tendency to confuse recognized standards of morality by extenuating lives of recklessness, and often criminality, with a single solitary virtue. He might easily show that he has never written a sermoClose...
yazar | Bret Harte |
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Tarafından yayınlandı | 2 Ekim 2020 |
1 x 13,5 x 19,5 cm 1 x 13,5 x 21 cm 15,2 x 0,6 x 22,9 cm Kolektif 28 Şubat 2018 3 Ocak 2017 5 Ocak 2017 15,2 x 0,7 x 22,9 cm F Scott Fitzgerald 2 Ekim 2020 Jack London H. G. Wells 1 Ocak 2018 4 Ocak 2017 B M Bower G. A. Henty 19,5 x 1 x 13,5 cm 19,5 x 13,5 cm
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yazar | Bret Harte |
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isbn 13 | 979-8675801671 |
Yayımcı | Independently published |
DE OLDUĞU GİBİ | B08KH97N7Q |
Tarafından yayınlandı The Luck of Roaring Camp | 2 Ekim 2020 |